ACEP Now Article: ICD-10 Coding Tips to Help Emergency Physicians Navigate Documentation Changes This article from June 15, 2015 presents two experts’ guidance on ICD-10 and answers the following questions: How will this impact how I document? Why is severity of illness (SOI) important and how and why should I document it? How do I document […]
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The transition to ICD-10 will change the way emergency medicine physicians document the ED patient encounter. ICD-10 requires significantly more detail than ICD-9 to help support medical necessity. In this regard, ICD-10 requires more effort on part of the provider to document the exact type of patient diagnosis. Not providing the required additional detail and
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To classify AR by its age, you must measure the time since a particular service was billed. Payments due for services in the past thirty days are placed in the 0-30 day bucket, those billed between thirty one and sixty days are placed in 31-60 day buckets, etc. While monitoring your AR aging is important,
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A small but growing number of hospitals are building emergency departments specifically for elderly patients at a time when the senior population is growing and hospitals are incentivized to develop new ways to prevent re-admissions and improve patient satisfaction. That trend made the ECRI Institute’s annual C-Suite Watch List of 10 clinical developments, tools and technologies that raise questions about
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently released another report on the use of electronic health records (EHR). This new report takes aim at the lack of integrity practices CMS and its contractors have established to address vulnerabilities in EHR technology. Last month, the OIG targeted hospitals
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