Posts Tagged ‘CMS’
FY 2021 ICD-10-CM Updates
Below is the recorded presentation by Natalie Sartori from UASI regarding the upcoming FY 2021 ICD-10-CM Changes effective on October 1st, 2020.
Read MoreAn Overview of the FY 2021 Evaluation and Management Code Changes
For the first time since 1997 the American Medical Association (AMA), in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), will implement significant changes to the Evaluation and Management (E/M) office visit codes and guidelines. This paper provides an overview of the E/M changes that will be implemented January 1, 2021. Background and…
Read MoreUASI in JAHIMA: “Documentation and Coding Practices for Risk Adjustment and Hierarchical Condition Categories”
UASI’s health information management (HIM) experts continue to set the pace in this fast-evolving field. Our vice president of HIM consulting services, Mary Stanfill, MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, co-authored a paper — published in the June 2018 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Health Information Management Association (JAHIMA) — that explored the…
Read MoreUASI in JAHIMA: “Improving Specificity in ICD-10 Diagnosis Coding”
Unspecified diagnosis coding continues to be a problem in the US healthcare industry. For many organizations, overuse of nonspecific diagnosis codes has resulted in reimbursement delays and, in some cases, preventable claim denials.
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