Utilization review teams and physician advisors have the same goal as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): correct status for all patients. But getting a Medicare inpatient into the correct status creates an admin..

It has now been over 18 months since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the discharge planning conditions of participation, but we still have no interpretive guidelines. I am sure that the pandemic has affected..

OSHA has issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for occupational exposure to COVID-19 that is applicable only to healthcare employers. The genesis for this ETS came one day after President Biden’s inauguration when, on January...

Recently I was listening to a podcast called Coder vs. CDI by my friend, Allen Frady, and his co-host, Amy Czahor, about how to code mild COVID-19 with other conditions; at one point, Allen mentioned he wanted to hear opinions from doctors. So here’s my opinion...

Refinements continue for the evaluation and management (E/M) office-visit and outpatient documentation and coding reforms that took effect this year, and these include technical corrections updates to the CPT^® code set published by the AMA that add clarity and answer...

The present world which we are working at right now is completely filled with far more opportunities to turn up everything right for ourselves. When we are progressing just in the right way we can come up with some of the solutions. The wound care billing services is...