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Test your knowledge with this week’s free quiz, which features questions about ICD-9-CM codes for neoplasms. (View)
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What is the correct ICD-9-CM code for alveolar mandibular hypoplasia?a. 524.70b. 524.72c. 524.73d. 524.74 The correct answer is D.
View ArticleProduct of the week: Inpatient-Only Procedures: Reevaluate, Reeducate, and...
CMS designates certain procedures as inpatient-only, but identifies them using CPT® codes (outpatient codes). Since inpatient coders use ICD-9-CM Volume 3 codes, not CPT codes, they need to know which...
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Q: We had a question regarding documentation in a record of SIRS due to acute peritonitis without sepsis. Our critical care physician on that case called it severe sepsis as well. What would you do in...
View ArticleHealthcare News: CMS releases 2015 ICD-10-PCS guidelines
The ICD-10-PCS codes and guidelines for 2015 look exactly the same as those for 2014. CMS released the 2015 ICD-10-PCS guidelines and general equivalence maps on its site. The files contain:No...
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A diabetic patient is admitted with gangrene. The physician does not specifically link the diabetes and the gangrene, but alsodoes not document any other potential cause of the gangrene. Should you...
View ArticleDiagnose documentation shortcomings to prepare for ICD-10-CM
The musculoskeletal system saw the largest increase in the number of new codes in ICD-10-CM, in large part because of the added specificity in the codes.Consider a patient with a fracture of the...
View ArticleUse, abuse, dependence: What does it all really mean?
By Shelley C. Safian, PhD, CCS-P, CPC-H, CPC-I As we hone our skills in ICD-9-CM to prepare for the transition to ICD-10-CM, we find opportunities to ensure that specifics of a patient’s condition are...
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A sample tip sheet in our Coding Sample Policies and Forms:Inpatient wound care tip sheetAlso on JustCoding Platinum:Did you see this in our Special Reports and News? ICD-10 Coding Corner: Recap of...
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Access the latest blog posts on ICD–10 Trainer, a free online forum for all matters related to ICD-10:ICD-10-CM coding for orthopedics webcastToo much sun is no funCMS posts new ICD-10-PCS codes and...
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What is the correct ICD-10-CM code for a dissociative stupor? a. F44.0b. F44.1c. F44.2d. F44.3 Know the answer and want to be featured in the next issue of JustCoding News: Inpatient?...
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Now in its second edition, The Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist’s Guide to ICD-10 is the only guide to address ICD-10 from the CDI point of view. Written by CDI experts and ICD-10 Boot...
View ArticleQ&A: Unspecified respiratory failure in ICD-10-CM
Q: When physicians continue to only document respiratory failure in the inpatient setting, will this still default to an MCC in ICD-10-CM? A: In ICD-10-CM, you will actually have three codes for...
View ArticleHealthcare News: CMS releases results of ICD-10 acknowledgment testing
CMS accepted an average of 89% of ICD-10 claims submitted during the national front-end testing week in March, the agency announced. Currently, CMS accepts 95%-98% of fee-for-service Medicare claims....
View ArticleDetermine the ICD-10-PCS root operation for altering diameter of a body part
A physician performs a percutaneous transcatheter embolization of the gastric artery for an arteriovenous malformation in the stomach. Should you use ICD-10-PCS root operation Occlusion or Restriction...
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