Documentation & ICD-10-ology

WASHINGTON, DC - Prior authorization - the time-sink, inefficient, and soul-sucking process used by health insurance agencies to determine and eventually deny coverage for a wide range of medications, services, or procedures in order...

BOSTON, MA - In what can only be described as a quagmire of apology emails, face-to-face meetings, and sensitivity seminars, the fallout from Robbie Coogan’s documentation gaff last week continues to leave hospital employees...

We all know that the ICD-10 committee has a sense of humor, because 68,000 codes?!  HAHAHAHA!!!!!  That’s HILARIOUS!  Well, turns out they have another joke up their sleeve. To spice things up, the ICD-10 committee...

ZDoggMD produces another dope video about our favorite topic, electronic health records (EHRs) sang to New York.  Mad props to Devin Moore for hitting those high Alicia Keys notes!!  And check out http://zdoggmd.com for lyrics,...

Shockingly, the first week of the ICD-10 era has not been smooth, which is why the ICD-10 committee astutely created the OMG codes: a set of codes dedicated solely to healthcare practitioners and the...

ATLANTA, GA - In a striking development last night at Georgia Medical Center (GMC), internal medicine physician Craig Kellerman wrote two notes on the same patient in the same day, an unheard of feat...

SILICON VALLEY, CA – Speech recognition software company Dragon, used by doctors and other professionals worldwide for transcription, announced the launch of a new dictation program able to recognize and indicate groans, sighs, moans,...

The AMA section of practice management and coding’s emergency meeting concluded last week at Chicago brought in a breakthrough.  Now there are CPT codes for documenting the time spent on searching for the ICD...

Now that we’re a few lessons in, you must be wondering the same thing: What about those ICD-10 codes that are ludicrous?  Whereas the first four lessons covered very common and reasonable codes, this...

One of the biggest complaints by providers of teenage and adult patients about ICD-9 was the absence of codes pertaining to babystrollers.  Thankfully ICD-10 has its priorities straight and addressed this.  Babystrollers are one...