The new ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation date looks to be October 1, 2015. CMS mentioned October 1, 2015, as the new date three times in the IPPS Proposed Rule, released April 30. The following day, CMS released a statement verifying its plan for an October 1, 2015, implementation.Read More »
Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center (the Hospital), in Dearborn, Mich., is the latest facility to fall under the sights of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for inappropriately assigning diagnosis code 260 for Kwashiorkor.Read More »
Q: I am a relatively new CDI specialist in a relatively new CDI program. We learned that we should be examining the health record with an eye toward “what bought the bed.” When we raise this concept to our coders, however, they disagreed with the premise telling us that such a concept was...Read More »
From calendar year 2008 to 2011, Medicare paid more than $65 billion for physician services. In each of these years, 2% of the physicians were responsible for almost 25% of all the payments—each receiving annual payments of approximately $1 million, according...Read More »
