Halloween witnesses this time the recently laid ICD-10, and you will find how interestingly ICD-10 relates to dealing with some scary Halloween characters by describing them in strange codes. Ever since its inception, ICD-10 has creative a good and chilling experience among its audience. It will surprise many of us when it can influence so … Read more5 Scary Things You should Know: What ICD-10 does to your Halloween
Health care providers are witnessing a startling change in their functioning these days. By order, all health care entities, recognized under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 1966 need to implement a new coding system for services. The existing system, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (or ICD-9) will be replaced by the … Read moreRecent Trends in Medical Coding: ICD-10 goes live this October
Outpatient Coding, undoubtedly, forms an integral part of the medical coder system. In technical terms, outpatient coding can be defined as the process of allocating universal numeric codes to the different diagnoses, treatments and procedures, subject to patients who have been treated and discharged within the initial 24 hours. Besides serving as a statistical record, … Read moreThe Prerequisites for Tackling Outpatient Coding Denials
President Obama signed the HITECH Act in which it stated that every medical practitioner; be it doctor, nurse, clinics and hospitals in America should start using EHR (Electronic Health Record) practices. The Act also provisioned a reward of $30 billion in the form of incentives to the providers and hospitals who sufficiently met the target … Read moreEHR’s Phase 3 Under way: A failed Revolution?