The CMS ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee is meeting next week, March 7 and March 8, to discuss proposed code changes to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. The committee is a federal committee comprised of representatives from CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Perfection’s (CDC)...Read More »
Q: We are struggling with coders querying certain diagnosis because they feel there is conflicting documentation in the record, and then we are “losing” that diagnosis. For example, the physician documents acute respiratory failure a couple of...Read More »
A False Claims Act lawsuit accuses UnitedHealthcare Group of a scheme which may have allowed its subsidiaries and other insurers to improperly overcharge Medicare by “hundreds of millions — and likely billions — of dollars,”...Read More »
The codes in ICD-10-CM Chapter 13, Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue, cover diagnoses for conditions throughout the body. Due to the wide scope of conditions in the chapter, it had extensive updates for 2017,...Read More »