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
357 episodes
Five Key Takeaways from CHIA
One of the largest regional coding organizations in America’s healthcare universe – the California Health Information Association (CHIA) – wrapped its final workshops this past week, with delegates flying home to share their insights on what wa...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 647
•
34:55
Join Us Live from CHIA
The national conference of the largest regional coding organization chapters in America’s healthcare universe gets underway this weekend – and James S. Kennedy, MD, will be there.Dr. Kennedy, president of CDIMD, a national coding and cli...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 646
•
29:40
A Puzzling Departure
UnitedHealth Group (UHG) stock is plummeting following the abrupt resignation of its CEO Andrew Witty. His sudden departure, coming on Tuesday, May 13, came amid multiple lawsuits and threatened actions by private, state, and federal agencies a...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 645
•
28:40
Looking for the Disconnect Impacting Compliance and Reimbursement
Radiology reports are rich in clinical detail, yet ICD-10 codes often fail to fully capture the complexity and specificity of imaging findings.That is why the producers of Talk Ten Tuesdays and ICD10monitor have invited Laura Manser to e...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 644
•
26:04
Jumpstart Your Revenue Cycle: Get Your Motor Running
The revenue cycle can be thought of as a machine that keeps churning nonstop, making everything work, financially speaking, for your hospital.But even the most well-oiled machinery can get clogged, meaning it doesn’t perform at its peak....
•
Season 14
•
Episode 643
•
27:24
How Coders and CDISs Can Help Avoid Payer Edits and Denials
Payer edits and denials are pervasive in healthcare reimbursement.These problems typically arise from coding inaccuracies, insufficient documentation, or non-compliance with payer-specific guidelines. These challenges can lead to revenue...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 642
•
29:47
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 641
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 640
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 639
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 638
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 637
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 636
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 635
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 634
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 633
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 632
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 631
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 630
•
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...
•
Season 14
•
Episode 629
•
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...
•
Season 13
•
Episode 628
•
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...
•
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...
•
Season 13
•
Episode 625
•
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...
•
Season 13
•
Episode 623
•
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...
•
Season 13
•
Episode 623
•
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...
•
Season 13
•
Episode 622
•
31:26