Debbi Meisner, vice president of regulatory compliance for Emdeon, discusses three challenges every hospital should be discussing in preparation for ICD-10. 1. System upgrades. According to Ms.

If any individual in the C-suite will feel the effects of ICD-10 most prominently, it will be the hospital CFO. As the organization’s financial manager, the CFO possesses an incredible amount of ...

Since ICD-10 implementation affects almost every department in a medical practice or hospital, it's fair to say that it's more than a medical coding problem. There are plenty of challenges to tackle ...

Timothy Meakem, MD, the medical director of ProVation Medical, recently gave a webinar presentation titled “Utilizing Procedure Documentation to Overcome the Challenges of ICD-10 and RAC.” ProVation ...

With the procedure codes increasing from 17,000 codes under ICD-9 to more than 141,000 codes under ICD-10, mastering the coding transition will be a Herculean task. It's about time to start piecing ...

Healthcare system managers know that the hardest part of moving to ICD-10 will be training physicians to document their work in ways that facilitate appropriate coding. Physicians are not necessarily ...

Many physicians deal with patients' injuries, ranging from tick removal by a primary care physician to a broken leg treated by an emergency department physician or the injuries and wounds of varying ...

Timothy Meakem, MD, the medical director of ProVation Medical, recently gave a webinar presentation titled "Utilizing Procedure Documentation to Overcome the Challenges of ICD-10 and RAC." ProVation ...