by Lynn Kuehn, MS, RHIA, CCS-P, FAHIMA Evaluation and Management (E/M) coding is somewhat like driving a car. You need to know some important theory before taking to the road. E/M calculators or E/M coding and productivity tools help speed documentation review but they don’t make choices for the coder. It is the coder’s responsibility to […]
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by Rebecca Harmon, MPM, RHIA, CCA Growing up, we learn to be grateful for any gift that someone gives us; no matter what it is. Most children have at some point had to say “thank you” for funny-colored sweaters from grandmothers, unusual gifts from Uncles and gifts we believe that we outgrew years before from neighbors […]
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by Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE Are you surprised by the denials and audits your organization is experiencing? We shouldn’t be surprised but monitoring everything is tedious and time-consuming. Who has excess staff to do it all? Often we get caught up with all the day-to-day distractions that we forego the opportunity to […]
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by Angela Lehoux, BS, CDIP, CCS, CIC, CPC-I I began my coding career at the age of 19. I really enjoyed it. I was a real go-getter and determined to make something of myself. My career was everything. I earned my CCS credential the second year it was offered, when you had to wait 6-8 […]
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by Lynn Kuehn, MS, RHIA, CCS-P, FAHIMA Tunneled and non-tunneled central venous catheters are different. A non-tunneled catheter is inserted directly into a central vein but the tunneled variety uses an extender piece that is placed into the subcutaneous tissue, in addition to the central catheter. The tunneled extender piece determines the difference in coding for […]
read more »by Lynn Kuehn, MS, RHIA, CCS-P, FAHIMA Coding the root operation of Detachment when the surgeon doesn’t document the ICD-10-PCS terminology of high, mid, or low amputations can be a challenge. Physicians don’t need to document these words, but they do need to give the coder enough documentation to know where the amputation took place. […]
read more »by Lynn Kuehn, MS, RHIA, CCS-P, FAHIMA Fogarty catheters are different than other thrombectomy catheters, such as stent retrievers or aspiration catheters. Because of the differences, the approach which must be assigned to code accurately in ICD-10-PCS is also different. A Fogarty catheter enters the vessel through a cut-down because it contains a guidewire and […]
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Hear nationally recognized ICD-10 expert and Libman Education course author Lynn Kuehn, MS, RHIA, CCS-P, FAHIMA, discuss Pediatric Neurosurgical Coding: Uncommon Pediatric Neurosurgery Procedures in this free, brief presentation. Need comprehensive and complete pediatrics coding guidance? Then consider Libman Education’s Pediatrics Coding Suite — authored by nationally recognized coding experts Lynn Kuehn and Gail I. […]
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