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
Episodes
351 episodes
How to Unfriend Hospital Social Stays
Custodial and social hospitalizations have long been a hospital challenge.From inadequate patient support and services to medically unwarranted occupancy of inpatient beds, plus lack of payment for provision of care, prevention and manag...
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Season 14
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Episode 641
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30:55
Coders’ Delight: A Faster, Better, Smarter Drug Lookup Strategy
In today’s healthcare environment, America’s hospitals are experiencing increases in payer denials as a result of incorrect application of drug HCPCS units and a drug HCPCS modifier (JW/JZ).These denials have increased costs for provider...
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Season 14
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Episode 640
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29:44
Mayday! Mayday! Avoiding Bottom-Line Disaster
Effective communication is a critical skill in navigating clinical and non-clinical interactions to avoid disaster striking a facility’s bottom line.In fact, poor communication directly impacts the bottom line. Today, amid a cacophony of...
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Season 14
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Episode 639
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35:36
World Health Day 2025
World Health Day, which will be officially observed on Monday, April 7, will mark what organizers claim will be a year-long celebration. Here at ICD10monitor and Talk Ten Tuesdays, we will celebrate a bit early, during the next edition of the T...
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Season 14
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Episode 638
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30:12
Doctors’ Day Observance Continues
National Doctors’ Day is Sunday, March 30. Even though the national one-day observance is only a few days away, the ICD10monitor producers of Talk Ten Tuesdays want to ensure that everyone is aware of the significant contributions made daily by...
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Season 14
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Episode 637
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30:25
When is it Okay to Delay?
Time is money. And nowhere is that adage more relevant than in today’s American hospitals.For example, consider the patient who is medically ready for discharge, but still waiting for a skilled nursing facility (SNF) bed to open up. Or t...
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Season 14
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Episode 636
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28:40
Transgender Care Creates New Challenges for Hospitals
Overwhelmed by nutrition advice?You’re not alone.From sketchy influencer “secrets” to Big Food’s algorithm-driven traps, a myriad of pitfalls means making healthy choices has never been harder.Questions abound: should you g...
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Season 14
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Episode 635
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31:10
At the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and CDI
Overwhelmed by nutrition advice?You’re not alone.From sketchy influencer “secrets” to Big Food’s algorithm-driven traps, a myriad of pitfalls means making healthy choices has never been harder.Questions abound: should you g...
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Season 14
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Episode 634
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30:17
Algorithms vs. Abs: Outsmarting Big Food and Bad Advice
Overwhelmed by nutrition advice?You’re not alone.From sketchy influencer “secrets” to Big Food’s algorithm-driven traps, a myriad of pitfalls means making healthy choices has never been harder.Questions abound: should you g...
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Season 14
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Episode 633
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26:11
To Discharge, Or Not to Discharge: The Evolving Role of EHRs
Discharge orders have evolved. Today, they indicate the end of hospital billing for an encounter.However, when the discharge order is placed on a day other than the day a patient actually leaves the hospital, it can often lead to under-repo...
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Season 14
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Episode 632
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30:17
“Artificial Intelligence: Pitfalls and Potential in Healthcare
Could generative artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionize healthcare, or is it just a risky trend?During the next must-see live broadcast of Talk Ten Tuesdays, Dr. Christopher Boyle will walk you through the potential and pitfalls of gene...
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Season 14
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Episode 631
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30:44
“The Police Are Here!” What Should You Know?
When a law enforcement officer comes to your facility, what do you need to know? And what should you do?While until recently, this topic was seldom on the top of lists ofhealthcare issues, a recent move by the Trump Administration (E...
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Season 14
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Episode 630
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30:51
The Stargate Project: How Will New AI Initiative Impact HIM?
It could be the shot heard ‘round the world: the announcement recently of Stargate, a multi-billion-dollar artificial intelligence (AI) project now underway in the U.S. and backed by huge corporations, including Oracle, Open AI, and SoftBank, a...
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Season 14
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Episode 629
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30:19
Staying Sharp in Healthcare Admin
Looking to unravel healthcare’s complex issues? Looking to streamline your operations and improve decision-making?Join us this coming Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. EST, when the long-running Talk Ten Tuesdays kicks off its 2025 broadcast s...
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Season 13
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Episode 628
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30:43
National Coding News Roundup: A Special 60-Minute Edition
We’re living in a hybrid world. And now the hybrid concept has become part of the coding and clinical documentation integrity (CDI) world.The process of physician querying is already a stressful activity for many CDI and coding professio...
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57:36
Five Proven Strategies to Achieve Accurate Mortality and Readmission Rate Performance
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) measures and, in some cases, penalizes facilities whose inpatient mortality or readmission (up to 3 per cent of their traditional Medicare revenue) rates for pneumonia, heart failure, acute m...
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Season 13
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Episode 625
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29:52
The Dental Billing Trap: Persistent, Throbbing Pain
Even savvy dentists tend to find a challenge in boosting their reimbursements by correctly coding procedures as medical claims instead of dental ones.During the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, Jeff Holt will report on the benefit...
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Season 13
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Episode 623
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31:13
Talk Ten Tuesdays Tech Report: Automating Physician Queries
He was enthralling as he explained his revolutionary technology that empowers healthcare professionals to make crucial decisions in real time that improve patient care. Dr. Gerasimos Petratos, founder and CEO for HITEKS, had successfully automa...
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Season 13
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Episode 623
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28:36
Analyzing America’s Collective Mental Health, Post-Election
In the wake of last Tuesday’s Presidential Election, the producers of ICD10monitor and Talk Ten Tuesdays have invited world-renowned psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic, MD to analyze America’s collective psyche.As in all election outcomes, th...
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Season 13
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Episode 622
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31:26
The IV Drought: A Survival Guide for Healthcare Heroes
Feeling parched?Well, you’re not alone. Hospitals across the country are dealing with a saline shortage.Thanks to Hurricane Helene’s unwelcome visit to the Baxter International facility in North Carolina, your IV bags may be runni...
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Season 13
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Episode 621
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27:28
Don’t Code for Panic: Understanding the New Medicare Appeal Process
The panic was widespread. Rumors were flying. Cellphone alarms were sounding.From large hospital conference rooms to upholstered cubicles, everyone seemed to have the same sense of disbelief and mounting frustration: Acentra Health (prev...
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Season 13
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Episode 620
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29:06
Rules of Engagement: Learning to Code Better, Faster, and More Accurately
The Rules of Engagement for medical coding and clinical documentation integrity (CDI) are based on four authoritative sources: the ICD-10-CM/PCS Official Coding Guidelines, the American Hospital Association (AHA) Coding Clinic Advice, the Ameri...
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Season 13
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Episode 619
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31:00
Q4 Coding Clinic: The Autopsy Report
The American Hospital Association’s (AHA’s) Coding Clinic edition for the fourth quarter of 2024 has been published, and it includes several key changes of which providers nationwide should take heed.And that is why the producers of ICD1...
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Season 13
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Episode 618
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31:16
Health and Longevity
Health and longevity are within reach for everyone, no matter from where you’re starting. And it’s never too late to begin.During the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, Dr. Nick van Terheyden will cover some key areas upon which to ...
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Season 13
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Episode 617
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30:00
Eleven Key Takeaways from the 2025 ICD-10 Code Updates
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) code updates for the 2025 fiscal year (FY).The FY 2025 ICD-10-CM updates ...
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Season 13
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Episode 616
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28:58