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
345 episodes
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
Sleep Deprivation: Study Reveals Serious Health Implications
Sleep is essential for all living organisms, from jellyfish to humans, and even bacteria have phases that resemble rest. Experiments show that severe sleep deprivation is lethal, as seen in rats, fruit flies, and Randy Gardner's 1964 11-day sle...
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Season 13
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Episode 615
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29:51
Dissecting the Holy Grail of Medical Record Coding
Elusive and seemingly unattainable, the crux of medical record coding essentially can be distilled into these apparently irreconcilable elements—accuracy, speed and knowledge.Overlay on this current situation the incessant need to be awa...
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Season 13
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Episode 614
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31:14
WARNING: The Healthcare Bermuda Triangle
Ships and airplanes apparently vanish into thin air. Mystery abounds. It’s the legendary Bermuda Triangle. But wait! Might there also be a healthcare Bermuda Triangle?Internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. H. Steven Moffic will make t...
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Season 13
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Episode 613
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29:01
Making the Case for Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Coding and CDI Costs
As senior healthcare leaders and stakeholders continue to look for ways to reduce coding and clinical documentation integrity (CDI) resource expenditures, making the business case for new technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) has neve...
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Season 13
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Episode 612
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29:30
The Patient Safety Structural Measure: A New Initiative Designed to Reduce Medical Errors
Recognizing that preventable medical errors, infections, and injuries are estimated to account for the deaths of 250,000 people annually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded public reporting by hospitals on rates...
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Season 13
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Episode 611
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28:42
2025 OPPS Proposed Rule: Important Changes Coming to the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Proposed Rule includes proposed policies that align with several key goals for the agency, one of which is promoting safe, effective, patient-ce...
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Season 13
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Episode 610
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28:51