Quality & Regulatory

Christus Saint Vincent Regional Medical Center, in Santa Fe, used ICD-9-CM diagnosis code 260 for Kwashiorkor, when it should have used codes for...Read More »

Senate Finance, House Ways and Means, and House Energy and Commerce committees combined multiple Medicare physician payment reform proposals into...Read More »

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by Trey La Charité, MD

Reducing mistakes and eliminating fraud are the dual goals in today's claims auditing environment. While these goals...Read More »

The American Hospital Association threw its support behind proposed legislation that would delay enforcement...Read More »

By Christina Benjamin, MA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P

Connolly Healthcare, the Recovery Auditor (RA) for Region C, continues to focus on...Read More »

CMS awarded approximately $6.3 billion in Medicare EHR Incentive Program payments in 2012, according to...Read More »

The federal court houses are closed. So are national landmarks, the United States scientific excursions to...Read More »

by James P. Fee, MD, CCDS, and Garry L. Huff, MD, CCS, CCDS

Certainly, the alphabetical and tabular index of the ICD-9-CM codebook...Read More »