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ICD-10-CM Updates for Fiscal Year 2020
Author: Watson, Monica M
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
By Monica Watson, RHIA, CPC, CCS, CCS-P, CPMA, CIC, CRC, CDEO
Coding professionals will be relieved to find fewer changes in the fiscal year (FY) 2020 ICD-10-CM code changes, effective October 1, 2019, than the last several years. The trend in decreasing changes for annual updates....
CMS Revises Telehealth Reimbursement Requirements
Author: Hernandez, Sandra MSMIS, RHIA, CPHI, CCS, CHC
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
By Sandra Hernandez, MSMIS, RHIA, CCS, CPHI, CHC
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has continued its efforts to reduce the administrative burden for physicians and “restore the doctor-patient relationship” by easing reimbursement requirements for tel....
Fewer Codes for 2020 in ICD-10-PCS
Author: Ward, Maria
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
By Maria N. Ward, M.Ed., RHIA, CCS, CCS-P
There has been an increase in the number of possible codes in ICD-10-PCS every year since its implementation. With the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 ICD-10-PCS code changes, effective October 1, 2019, the tides have turned. In the Medical and Surg....
Health Information Exchange Can Play a Big Role in Delivering Integrated Care
Author: Head, Erin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
By Erin Head, MBA, RHIA, CHDA, CCS, CHTS-TR
Picture it: No more fax machines by 2020. That means no fax machines by next year.
Ambitious as this timeline may seem, it’s actually the challenge set forth by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Adminis....
Importance of Health Information in Performance Excellence and Process Improvement
Author:
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
By Santosh Mudiraj, MBBS, MPH
Common and unintended errors in today’s healthcare system can create major complications for patients, personnel, and systems. These error-related issues can harm patients, affect quality of care, increase operational costs, impact competition,....
Making the Electronic Case Reporting Transition
Author: Viola, Allison F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
Pushing Paper Aside as eCR Changes HIM’s Quality Practices
By Allison Viola, MBA, RHIA
Public health agencies across the country continue to face new challenges, from surveilling chronic and infectious diseases such as Ebola and Zika, to managing the anticipated &ld....
What's in Store: Retail Giants Expand Offerings with New Health Clinics
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
By Mary Butler
Retail healthcare is having another “moment” with the recent announcements that both Amazon and Walmart are rolling out primary care clinics with consumer convenience in mind.
Amazon’s entry to the market, Amazon Care, is a “vir....
Comparative Study of HIM Professionals Comprehension and Use of Data Protection on Mobile Devices
Author:
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
By Julie M. Wulf Plimpton, MSHI, RHIA, CPHI
As smartphone use continues to grow, these devices are often used to access an individual’s private information. American mobile device users spend, on average, five hours of their day communicating or accessing information on thei....
Taking Action for Health Information
Author: Wiggs Harris, Wylecia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
By Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD, CAE, chief executive officer
Throughout the year we’ve been talking about AHIMA’s transformation. Our aim with this project has been to keep AHIMA relevant in light of today’s trends and to become an association that better meets the....
President's Message
Author: Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
Reflecting on a Year to Treasure
By Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA
I cannot pick just one thing that I am most proud of from this year. I am extremely proud to have worked alongside an amazing board of directors, CEO, and AHIMA staff during my year as President and Ch....
The Future of Coding
Author:
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
A Report from AHIMA’s Coding Thought Leadership Council
By Anne Zender, MA
What does the future of coding look like? A panel of coding experts and health information management (HIM) professionals met in early June to answer this question and others.
T....
Are We There Yet?
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2019
Evaluating Whether EHRs are Meeting the Needs of Value-Based Care
By Mary Butler
The “meaningful use” Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program successfully brought the vast majority of healthcare providers into the computer age and transitioned the ind....
Close Doesn’t Count: Patient Matching Challenges in HIEs
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Lisa A. Eramo, MA
The more we know about patients, the easier it is to match them. Or at least that’s the theory. Clinical data, patient-generated data, biometrics, social determinants of health: all of this should make patient matching in health information exchanges (HI....
Clinical Documentation Improvement for Outpatient Care: Design and Implementation
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Editor’s Note: This Practice Brief is based on an excerpt from the AHIMA Press publication Clinical Documentation Improvement for Outpatient Care: Design and Implementation by Pamela Carroll Hess, MA, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CPC.
The AHIMA Foundation has established compe....
Three Ways Analytics Optimizes Health Outcomes
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA
Over the summer I was fortunate to participate in several conferences. I was both honored to be involved and enthralled at the expertise of all of the individuals who participated and presented.
Data is powerful. Data litera....
Coding Quality Improvement Plan Implementation for Hospital-Acquired Physician Groups
Author: Youmans, Karen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Karen Youmans, MPA, RHIA, CCS, and Vanessa Youmans, MA, RHIA, CCS, CPC
As healthcare organizations strive for continuous efficiency and sustainability, mergers and acquisitions (M&A)among diverse medical facilities provides organizations new opportunities to reduce costs an....
Anonymized EHRs Create Potential Liability for Google and Hospital
Author: Hedges, Ron
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Gail L. Gottehrer, JD, and Ronald J. Hedges, JD
A recently filed class action highlights the risk that the proliferation of health-related smartphone apps, fitness trackers, and the data these programs collect, may enable the re-identification of purportedly de-identified elect....
CAC Takes Coding Into the Future
Author: Fahy, Kristi
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Kristi Fahy, RHIA
Technology is the segue to the future. It is the very thing that will transform the landscape of today’s world into one with endless possibilities. In healthcare, that transformation is being accelerated by the transition to electronic health records (EH....
NIST Privacy Framework: Protecting Privacy While Promoting Interoperability
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Karen Starling Greenhalgh, HCISPP, CHC, CHPC
Privacy is often seen as a barrier to electronic health information exchange (HIE). To help address those concerns and meld core privacy principles with proven oversight and accountability mechanisms, the National Institute of Standa....
Telehealth's Popularity Puts New Emphasis on Privacy and Security
Author: Clack, Lesley
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Lesley Clack, ScD, MS, CPH
Telehealth, which refers to healthcare services facilitated remotely through electronic information and telecommunications technology, is on the rise. In 2010, 35 percent of hospitals had partially or fully implemented computerized telehealth systems,....
‘The Farewell’ Offers Insights into HIPAA’s Right to Access
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Mary Butler
In the film The Farewell, Chinese-American actress and comedian Awkwafina plays a woman torn between two cultural approaches to death and dying when her character, Billi, learns that her grandmother has terminal lung cancer. Billi's grief is compounded when she....
A Time to Be Bold
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD, CAE, chief executive officer
HIM professionals are well aware of the work involved in matching patients to their unique records. Mismatched records can cost us time, lead to frustration, and cause headaches and dissatisfaction for patients and provide....
Six Strategies to Build Outpatient Coding Accuracy and Quality
Author: Olenik, Keith
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Keith Olenik, MA, RHIA, CHP
As healthcare services migrate toward outpatient settings, hospitals and health systems are struggling to ensure coding accuracy and quality for owned practices and clinics. With the steady increase in outpatient services, revenue integrity chal....
Evaluating Clinical Scenarios in Coding Clinic with Data Analytics
Author: Casto, Anne B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Anne Casto, RHIA, CCS
The American Hospital Association’s Coding Clinic publishes valuable advice and guidance for coding professionals, but can coding professionals learn even more from this publication? What could coding professionals gain if Coding Clinic ent....
CodeWrite September 19 Zcodes
Author: Bielby, Judy A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
CodeWrite September 19 PCS
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Appendix D: Qualitative Productivity Tool Example
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Productivity expectations can be both qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative productivity is measuring the quality of the work being performed. This is typically measured by performing audits of the CDI professional’s work and then assigning a numeric value so it can be measured (see e....
Appendix C: Ongoing Education Plan
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
An annual plan for ongoing education can be developed and started at the beginning of each calendar or fiscal year, or with the annual employee evaluation. The manager of the CDI team or designee can be required to ensure each education topic is offered to the employee during the year. It is im....
Appendix A: Key Points in Developing a CDI Program
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Recruitment Best Practices
Create a culture where great employees want to work
Consider the candidate’s cultural compatibility, leadership skills, communication skills, and intellectual ability
Consider all candidate streams when recruiting both internally an....
Appendix B: Orientation for New CDI Professionals
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Orientation for new clinical documentation professionals should include the nuances involved in diagnosis, procedure, inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS), and outpatient prospective payment systems (OPPS) capture. Some of these topics include concepts such as major diagnostic categorie....
Collaboration is Key to Leading Through Transformation
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA
I am so inspired by our leaders all across the country. At last year’s CSA Leadership Symposium it was agreed that AHIMA was in a state of decline and that change was needed. It was an amazing moment—one I will never forget an....
Developing and Defining a Legal Health Record Policy
Author: Zak, Cindy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Cindy Zak, MS, RHIA, PMP, FAHIMA
Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) began implementing the electronic health record (EHR) across four delivery networks in 2012. As the system moved to the electronic world, it became evident that YNHH needed to address the issue of defining the organi....
New Starts and Transformation Wins
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD, CAE, chief executive officer
September is a time of new starts. At AHIMA, it’s our busiest time of year as we prepare for our annual conference and a host of other fall and winter activities. It’s also a time to look back on the year: two-....
In Search of EHR's Designated Record Set
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Mary Butler
When Rita Bowen, MA, RHIA, CHPS, CHPC, SSGB, broke her elbow while attending an AHIMA event in Baltimore threeyears ago, she soldiered on through the event but summoned her primary care physician for a telemedicine encounter to determine her treatment. Later, when c....
Historic State AG HIPAA Filing: An Important Case to Understand
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Iliana L. Peters, JD, LLM, CISSP, and Pasha Sternberg, JD
ON MAY 30, 2019, Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to in this article as “MIE”), agreed to pay $900,000 to 16 states that had jointly filed suit for violating t....
Data Mapping of Clinical Terminologies, Classifications, and Ontologies
Author: Campbell, James R.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By James R. Campbell, MD, FACP, FACMI
Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from Chapter 17 of Healthcare Code Sets, Terminologies, and Classification Systems, Fourth Edition, published by AHIMA Press.
In 2007, the Institute of Medicine set a vision for the....
Data Analytics: The Straight-Lined Labyrinth that Entrapped the HIM Profession
Author: Sandefer, Ryan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Ryan Sandefer, PhD, and David Marc, PhD, CHDA
Skills in data analytics are critical to the future of health information management (HIM), yet there has been considerable confusion regarding how to articulate what data analytics means for the profession. In a survey of more than....
PHI Hide and Seek: Hidden PHI Carries High Financial Risk
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Ken Reiher, MBA
Ken Reiher, MBA
The Danger of Being Connected
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Ty Greenhalgh, HCISPP
In 2014, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act required and incented hospitals to demonstrate “meaningful use” of an electronic health record (EHR). Hospitals, desiring to maintain existing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement levels and av....
Lost Data and Its Implications for Litigation
Author: Hedges, Ron
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Ron Hedges, JD
Healthcare providers deal with electronic information on a daily basis. Providers must expect that volumes and varieties of electronic information will increase exponentially with, for example, the rise of artificial intelligence in the diagnosis and treatment of....
Reporting Social Determinants of Health
Author: William, Fiala C
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By William C. Fiala, BS, MA, CCS-P, CPC, RMA
Capturing socioeconomic data, also referred to as social determinants of health (SDOH), is rapidly becoming a necessary element of documentation. SDOH “are among the most influential factors that determine health outcomes of indiv....
Data and Analytics Drive Effort to Curb Opioid Abuse: A Holistic Approach for Health Systems
Author: Monga, Kapila; Singh, Harpreet
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Kapila Monga and Harpreet Singh
In the United States, five percent of the world’s population consumes about 80 percent of the world’s opioids,1 a statistic that merits the status of a public health crisis in which the demand and supply side of the issue deserve equa....
Recruitment, Selection, and Orientation for CDI Professionals
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
Editor’s Note: This Practice Brief supersedes the July 2013 Practice Brief titled “Recruitment, Selection, and Orientation for CDI Specialists.”
The goal of a strong clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program is to validate that the documentation supports t....
PHI Hide and Seek
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
Components of an Effective Inpatient Coding Compliance Program
Author:
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Kathryn DeVault, MSL, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, and Mary H. Stanfill, MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA
There are multiple benefits of an effective coding compliance program. An article published in the January 2019 issue of the Journal of AHIMA titled “Components of an Effective O....
Clinical Documentation Improvement and Data Analytics Combine to Improve Patient Safety
Author: Evers, Teresa
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Teresa Evers, RN, RHIA, CDIP, CCS
Healthcare professionals have all been subjected to mountains of information urging them to amplify quality care and patient safety. Everyone who works in healthcare, including health information management (HIM) professionals, must strive to a....
The Next Frontier: Launching into Remote CDI
Author: Mogbo, Chinedum; Yuen, Anny Pang
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Chinedum Mogbo, MBBS, MsHIM, RHIA, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, and Anny Pang Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS
Employees are requesting more flexibility and organizations are now finding that by offering remote capabilities, they are getting some of the best talent that may not reside in their same t....
Exploring Permitted Disclosures of Health Information for Treatment and Care Coordination
Author: Beidler, Aurae
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Aurae Beidler, MHA, RHIA, CHC, CHPS
In December 2018, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the entity that enforces HIPAA, requested public input on ways to modify HIPAA Rules to “facilitate efficient care coordination and/or case management and to promote the transformation to v....
Reference Data Management: Overcoming Challenges, Taking Hold of Opportunities
Author: Mason, Cheryl MSHI
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Cheryl Mason, MHSI
The scope of healthcare’s Big Data imperative is growing by the day. For instance, one study reveals that the doubling time of medical data in 1950 was 50 years; in 1980, seven years; and in 2010, three and a half years. In 2020 it is projected to be 0.2 year....
Comcast Eyes Home Health Monitoring
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
A couple years ago, Saturday Night Live spoofed how senior citizens use automated home assistant products such as Amazon’s Echo by imagining a fictional product called Amazon Echo Silver—a device designed to help forgetful, hard of hearing seniors manage activities like turning up the thermosta....
Definition, History, and Use of the Problem List
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
The problem list was first defined and created by Lawrence Weed in the 1960s at a time when care continuity was its primary purpose. Problem lists have become more widely used as a basis for problem-oriented charting, a methodology for clinical documentation embraced by many in the medical esta....
Status Check on CDI Transformation
Author: Wiggs Harris, Wylecia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD, CAE, chief executive officer
The Journal’s clinical documentation improvement (CDI) issue gives me an opportunity to provide an update on some of the important work AHIMA has been doing in 2019.
As you know, we’ve been undertaking what w....
APIs and the Privacy, Security Challenge for HIM
Author: Dean, A. Andrews
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By A. Andrews Dean, CPHIMS, CHDA, CPHI, CPPM, CPC
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) turned many healthcare information technology consultants’ heads in March 2018 when they announced the new MyHealthEData initiative—intended to continue CMS’s goal of digitizing....
AWC Summit Addressing Universal HIM Issues
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Lisa A. Eramo, MA
Telling an accurate and complete patient story through clinical documentation is a goal that transcends cultures and geographic boundaries. It’s also the primary theme at the 2019 AHIMA World Congress (AWC) Healthcare Information Summit that will take pla....
Focus on Population Health CDI Generates ACO Shared Savings
Author: Fee, James P; Trepina, Sonia; Boles, Jennifer; Sparks, Joel
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By James P. Fee, MD, CCS, CCDS; Sonia Trepina, MPA; Jennifer Boles, CPC, CRC; and Joel Sparks, PMP
Cost containment. It’s a concept that accountable care organizations (ACOs) cite frequently as they strive for shared savings. This makes sense because expenditures drive cost thresh....
Coders or Nurses for CDI Teams: Why Hiring Both to Collaborate Works Best
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Mary Butler
On the most widely used job search websites, listings for clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists typically look something like this:
Description: The clinical documentation improvement specialist provides support of clinical docume....
Red Flags for Myocardial Infarctions Coding and CDI
Author: Mills, Lorie B.; Sweeney, Susan; Laura, Little; Goyal, Abhinav
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Lorie B. Mills, RHIT, CCS; Susan Sweeney, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS; Laura Little, RHIT, CCS; and Abhinav Goyal, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA
As many HIM professionals know, there are substantial “red flag” terms related to coding myocardial infarctions (MIs) and non-MI troponin elevation, whi....
HIM is the Link Between CDI and Precision Medicine
Author: Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA
Dr. Amal Alzu’bi, a graduate of the doctoral program at University of Pittsburgh, just had part of her dissertation published in AHIMA’s online scholarly journal Perspectives in Health Information Management under the title “Genetic Varia....
Computer-Assisted Coding Reality Check
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Mary Butler
As text messaging has come to replace telephone calls as the primary means of interpersonal communication, apps such as SwiftKey have popped up to help those with less than nimble thumbs. SwiftKey and other “intelligent keyboards” quickly learn a user&rs....
Third-Party Data Disclosure Risk Management for Healthcare Organizations
Author: Carlson, April M; Goldman, Daniel JD; Milnes, Burke MPA; Otte, Kimberly JD; Schacht, Morgan JD
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By April Carlson, MBA, HCISSP, CFE; Daniel Goldman, JD; Burke Milnes, MPA; Kimberly Otte, JD; and Morgan Schacht, JD
Hoping to balance the competing demands to share information while also protecting it, Mayo Clinic has developed a process to review disclosures of data that is ris....
Managing and Analyzing EHR Pharmacy Data in the Hospital Setting
Author: Houser, Shannon H.; Wagner, Jodie ; Holland, Christopher O
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Shannon H. Houser, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA; Jodie Wagner, CPhT; and Christopher O. Holland, RPH
As technology continues to evolve in medicine the way medical data are handled has also evolved over time. Pharmacy data are a vital component in the electronic health record (EHR) d....
CAC is Like the Driverless Car—Both Need the Human Touch
Author: Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA
I have not coded a medical record in many years, but I love coding. I love to use the codes to examine all aspects of coding processes and disease-related research. In the past, I worked on a team that examined the computer-assisted codin....
Avoid Pain After a Breach—Read the Fine Print
Author: Gillespie, Joe D; Lucci, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Joe Gillespie, MS, RHIA, CHPS, and Susan Lucci, RHIA, CHPS, CHDS, AHDI-F
The Anthem Blue Cross breach made the cybersecurity data breach headlines across the nation in 2015. As the single largest email phishing attack up until that time, impacting nearly 80 million patients, th....
Tips for Getting the Most Out of Computer-Assisted Coding
Author: Land, Daniel
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Daniel Land, RHIA, CCS
Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian philosopher who predicted the World Wide Web nearly 30 years before its invention, said that “we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”1 It is important to keep this in mind in any discussion of computer-assiste....
Data Normalization: Help for Quality Measures Reporting
Author: Mason, Cheryl MSHI
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Cheryl Mason, MSHI
By now, most health information management (HIM) professionals are familiar with national quality measures and the role they play in value-based care. Accuracy in reporting is paramount as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to elev....
Coding Respiratory Failure
Author: Leisch, Monica RHIA, CDIP, CCS
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Monica Leisch, RHIA, CDIP, CCS
Consider the following scenario: a patient is admitted through the emergency department (ED) with acute shortness of breath. The ED notes and history and physical document acute respiratory failure. Blood gases show an oxygen level of 75, pCO2 lev....
Paper Workaround Defeats EHRs’ Purpose
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
In research findings that should surprise very few health information management (HIM) professionals, attending physicians and the colleagues they conduct morning rounds with think electronic health records (EHRs) aren’t well suited for rounding in patient rooms. Their disdain for this now perv....
Once More, Coding at the Crossroads
Author: Wiggs Harris, Wylecia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD, CAE, chief executive officer
The phrase “interesting times” suggests both opportunity and anxiety. These are especially “interesting times” for those of us in coding.
On the one hand, one research organization recently forecast that the....
Using CC/MCC Capture Rates as a Key Performance Indicator
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
The goal of this Practice Brief is to provide an explanation of the complication/comorbid condition and major complication/comorbid condition (CC/MCC) capture rate, review the calculation, and introduce the uses of this key performance indicator (KPI) by different functions of the mid-revenue c....
Third-Party Data Disclosure Risk Management for Healthcare Organizations.
Author: Carlson, April M; Goldman, Daniel JD; Milnes, Burke MPA; Schacht, Morgan HCISSP, CFE; Otte, Kimberly JD
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
Curiosity Killed the Career
Author: Davis, Nancy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Nancy Davis, MS, RHIA, CHPS
While serving as a system privacy officer for a Wisconsin-based healthcare system, the author of this article met regularly with the organization’s president to review privacy and security compliance. This time was spent reviewing breaches that membe....
Revolutionary Payment Changes Prompt Skilled Nursing Facilities to Eye CDI Programs
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Lisa A. Eramo, MA
While clinical documentation hasn’t exactly been a strength in many of today’s financially strapped skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), this may soon change as SNFs shift to a new payment methodology—the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM)—in which these facili....
How an AHIMA Credential is Born
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Mary Butler
When you see a list of letters after a health information management (HIM) professional’s last name, it’s sometimes too easy to take for granted all the long, hard hours that went into earning and creating those acronyms. For both the credential earner and the certi....
Teaching Tune Up
Author: Lower, Christi L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2019
How the New HIM Curricula Will Change Education, Future Employees
By Christi Lower, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA
The health information management (HIM) professional’s career pathway has changed as technology continues to impact providers’ ability to acquire, harness, and harvest he....
Investing in Apprentices Pays Dividends for Employers
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2019
By Lisa A. Eramo, MA
When Mary B. Parks, JD, RHIA, CCS, director of health information at St. Joseph’s/Candler in Savannah, GA was charged with replacing inpatient contract coders with in-house staff, she did what most directors do. She dove into a candidate search in the hope of....
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