Coding Clinic 1st Quarter 2016 Updates The release of Coding Clinic 1st Quarter 2016 (effective with discharges which started on March 18, 2016) brought about two significant changes. Heart Failure The first change is the acceptance of the more contemporary heart failure classification terms that refer to ejection fraction and...
Coding Compliance
Announcing Provident’s 2016 Healthcare Compliance Webinar Series
Provident is pleased to announce the 2016 healthcare compliance webinar series. Join Provident as we host complimentary 30-minute, lunch break webinars aimed at keeping you and your organization informed on the latest happenings in the healthcare world. 2016 is the year of compliance! Starting with our kickoff webinar in May, the...
12 Questions You Need to Ask to Maximize Audit Results
“CFOs and other executives often have little visibility into the results; even those that seriously impact revenue.” As CFO, the financial health of an organization rests on your shoulders. You identify growth opportunities and watch for payer and government activity that tighten the organizations purse strings. Whether your view is...
Dual Coding: The Key to a Successful ICD-10 Transition
As the official implementation of ICD-10 approaches, healthcare organizations are finalizing plans for managing this transition. One key initiative to prepare for ICD-10 is to implement dual coding. There are many benefits to dual coding beyond providing coders an opportunity to practice including: identification of remediation training needs, minimizing productivity...
Chiropractic Coding: How Chiropractic Practices Must Adapt to the ICD-10 Transition
Medical coders for a hospital or general medical practice have an uphill climb – the number of codes they will be responsible for learning and knowing is immense when the ICD-10 transition occurs in October 2015. It would follow then that healthcare providers who specialize – like chiropractors – should...
How the Health Information Management Industry Will Be Impacted by the ICD-10 Transition
Mention the ICD-10 transition to a health information management (HIM) team and one word is likely to come to mind: productivity. There are approximately five times the number of codes in ICD-10 than in ICD-9. Disease classifications will be in the double digits. Inpatient hospital procedure codes alone will increase...
What Hospitals Need to Know About the Two-Midnight Rule
The Two-Midnight Rule is a benchmark for physicians to use in determining a patient’s status for care, whether inpatient or outpatient, at all inpatient acute care hospitals, including Long Term Care Hospitals and critical access hospitals. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Two-Midnight Rule over concerns...