by Scot Nemchik | Mar 5, 2018 | Clinical Revenue Integrity, Coding
Get the DRG and move on. For better or worse, and with rare exception, that was the primary directive governing inpatient coding behavior back when I was coding in the early 2000’s. This edict made sense in context of the limited reach of coded data at the turn of the...
by Scot Nemchik | Jan 12, 2018 | Clinical Revenue Integrity, Coding
Right about this time last year, we stood on the cusp of implementing over 5,500 new ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes for the new federal fiscal year. One year later, we find ourselves in a similar position. Thousands of new diagnosis and procedure codes are waiting in...
