Last week’s congressional House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee hearing regarding ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation left many industry leaders optimistic. Of the seven witnesses who answered committee questions and provided testimony, only one spoke against implementation, essentially...Read More »
As healthcare reform bring changes in reimbursement and focus, it also brings a shift in job titles, roles, and responsibilities throughout the industry, James U. King, senior partner, chief quality officer and children's hospitals practice lead at executive staffing firm Witt/Kieffer, told ...Read More »
Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing ties reimbursement to quality measures, assessing criteria such as mortality, patient satisfaction, and other items.Read More »
Q: Our facility is considering having our coders and CDI specialists “go–live” with ICD-10-CM/PCS on July 1, in order to practice to help off-set the impact of ICD-10. The system will would then code backwards into ICD-9-CM for billing. Is this “backward mapping” method appropriate?Read More »
by Brian Murphy, CPC
Let’s move forward with full implementation of ICD-10 on October 1, 2015, both for hospitals and physicians. But let’s also see a more transparent application process for the Cooperating Parties, allowing physicians/clinicians full representation at the table...Read More »
