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CodeWrite (December 2016)
Author: AHIMA Staff
Source: AHIMA newsletter
Publication Date: December 2016
Monthly newsletter containing practical news for coding, reimbursement, and healthcare compliance
Coding and Quality Measures Brief: Pressure Ulcer Rate
Author: Drake, Suzanne P
Source: CodeWrite | AHIMA newsletter article
Publication Date: December 2016
The "Coding and Quality Measures Brief" is a new CodeWrite series that explores individual quality metric technical specifications and identifies the coding opportunities in the acute care inpatient setting for reporting the measure.
Inclusion or exclusion to a me....
ICD-10-CM Checkpoint: Application of 7th Characters
Author: Buttner, Patty
Source: CodeWrite | AHIMA newsletter article
Publication Date: December 2016
Case scenario: A patient fell at home, sustaining a displaced fracture of the base of the neck of the left femur. The treatment for the fracture was a total hip replacement in an acute inpatient hospital. She is now being transferred to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) for rehabilitation.....
Hypertension Coding - Crisis Averted
Author: Lojewski, Tedi
Source: CodeWrite | AHIMA newsletter article
Publication Date: December 2016
Thanks to the recent publication of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting FY 2017, the past controversy over the interpretation of the term "With" has been resolved.1 The revision of Section I.A.15, "With," now incorporates what was previously clarified in AHA Coding C....
Importance of Interdisciplinary Teams
Author: Combs, Tammy
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 23, 2016
Have you ever spent hours working on a project, only to find out at a random meeting that another team has been working on the same project? This type of scenario can be frustrating to both teams and lead to distrust in the work process—not to mention wasted time that could have been spent....
AHIMA Comments on ICD-10-CM proposals for October 2017 implementation presented at the September 2016 ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting
Author: Bowman, Sue E
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: November 2016
Letter to Donna Pickett, MPH, RHIA, ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee, National Center for Health Statistics
AHIMA Comments on ICD-10-PCS proposals presented at the September 2016 ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting
Author: Bowman, Sue E
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: November 2016
Letter to Patricia Brooks, RHIA, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMM, HAPG, Division of Acute Care
Coding Viral Sepsis
Author: Sanvik, Gina
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 10, 2016
How to code viral sepsis has been a topic of discussion on AHIMA’s Engage Coding, Classification and Reimbursement community, and has be the subject of several inquiries to AHIMA’s Code-CheckTM coding question service.
The viral sepsis coding confusion may com....
ICD-10-PCS: An Applied Approach
Author: Kuehn, Lynn; Jorwic, Therese M
Source: AHIMA book
Publication Date: 2016
This comprehensive text, which uses the 2017 code set, is devoted to learning and mastering the process of building codes in ICD-10-PCS. All current coding professionals and students in academic programs must become and remain proficient in using this system for inpatient procedures.
FY 2017 Updates to ICD-10-PCS
Author: Ward, Maria
Source: Journal of AHIMA | Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: November 2016
Many changes come with the first update of the new ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) for fiscal year (FY) 2017. The higher-than-usual volume of changes was to be expected since the update system has been in a holding pattern for several years due to implementation delays. And al....
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