Talk Ten Tuesdays
Get the most up-to-minute news and information on ICD-10. Join Chuck Buck and Angela Comfort, DBA, MBA, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P, every Tuesday as they welcome ICD10monitor contributing editors and special guests to monitor and report on the progress that all healthcare stakeholders are experiencing in their respective implementations of ICD-10. Register to attend live here: https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1236510&tp_key=da0e4c0f76
Talk Ten Tuesdays
Latest Episodes
Hospital’s Latest Status Symbol: Utilization Managers
Utilization managers (UMs) have long served as a resource for clinicians determining the appropriate patient status.Key considerations include which clinicians are involved, how communication occurs, and how status orders are entered.
700th Commemorative Live Broadcast of Talk Ten Tuesday
Tuesday, July 28 marks the 700th live edition of the commemorative Talk Ten Tuesdays broadcast. And in honor of this celebration, the ICD10monitor producers of the popular news and information service have invited Dennis Jones, the assistant vi...
Behavioral Health Amid the Coding Crisis
The squeeze is on.Federal enforcement is intensifying, with behavioral health agencies facing heightened scrutiny following revealing reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG)....
Understanding the Misunderstanding: Secondary Reviews
The secondary review: Corrective Backup? Or a layer of quality assurance?Given that clinical documentation integrity (CDI) invariably has interpretative variability, a secondary review is intended to bring consistency to complex issues, ...
Twin Horns of a Dilemma: Inpatient Status without the IPO List
What happens when the Inpatient-Only (IPO) List goes away?The entire list is expected to be eliminated Jan. 1, 2028.This will necessitate careful, patient-specific status determinations, rather than automatic assumptions based onl...
