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By Ben Howard for Med City News This year ushered in many changes affecting reimbursement for healthcare providers, but few are as important as the new Physician Fee Schedule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the updated coding guidelines for Evaluation and Management (E/M) services from the American Medical Association. For…
By Cynthia Raymond, RN, MSN, CPC, COC, CCDS, ACM-RN for ACDIS CDI Blog CDI specialist’s work can often be tapered down to two categories of work. One category is concurrent stay reviews where CDI makes efforts to ensure that the medical record is accurate and compliant before final coding. The second category of work is…
By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review CMS published specific codes for billing Medicare for Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 antibody cocktail. The FDA granted emergency use authorization Feb. 9 to the antibody cocktail, a combination of antibodies bamlanivimab and etesevimab. The agency granted emergency use authorization to bamlanivimab Nov. 9. The new approval is based on phase…
Since Dolbey’s founding in 1914, the Dolbey name has stood for dependability and industry leading technology. The Dolbey suite of solutions include physician-facing applications for speech recognition and dictation as well as solutions for document creation and transcription and revenue cycle solutions for clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and computer-assisted coding (CAC). This year, Dolbey earned…
By Lori Amende, RHIA for For the Record Starting in October 2016, coders began to see a shift in how the key word “with” should be applied in the ICD-10-CM classification system. Since then, additional guidance has been provided to help further clarify this coding convention, including some exceptions to be aware of. In this…
By Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Nobody likes being proved wrong, but it’s not always a bad thing. It’s probably okay to be proven wrong when you think it’s a good idea to feed a shark by hand, or to drink a few beers and then tell your buddies you can…
Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review The American Medical Association on Jan. 19 published three Current Procedural Terminology codes for the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson. The codes allow for better tracking and data reporting by distinguishing the vaccine from others. The AMA published the new CPT codes so that electronic systems throughout the…
By Eric Oliver for Becker’s Hospital Review With the new calendar year, several CMS changes took effect, with more on the way. Here’s a roundup of changes CMS made or will make in 2021: Removed 298 musculoskeletal-related services. By 2024, all 1,700 procedures on the inpatient-only list will be phased out, and will be allowed…
By Susan Chapman for For the Record Health care organizations are increasingly adopting revenue integrity (RI) programs, which, as defined by the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity, are valuable to “prevent recurrence of issues that can cause revenue leakage and/or compliance risks through effective, efficient, replicable processes and internal controls across the continuum of…
By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News In his opening keynote Tuesday at the HIMSS Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare Digital Summit, Mayo Clinic CIO Cris Ross enumerated some of the many ways artificial intelligence has been crucial to our evolving understanding of COVID-19. Way back in March, for instance, researchers were already using…