ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Codes and Coding
Get the latest on ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding. AHA's fact sheets and webinars for healthcare professionals.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued a final rule updating payment rates for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late Friday issued a proposed rule updating payment rates for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year 2020.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week discussed a set of national guidelines for coding hospital emergency department visits in response to the shift in ED coding from lower to higher intensity services.
Kathleen Hackett, R.N., a nurse at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, shares how nurses can help identify victims of human trafficking and why the new ICD-10 codes are so important.
The AHA's Hospitals Against Violence initiative, the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center, and HEAL Trafficking Jan. 22 at 2 p.m. ET will host a webinar offering resources for health care professionals to combat human…
Melissa Graham
By Bob Kehoe
Human trafficking touches many more lives in America than people realize. Take it from Melissa Graham, a board-certified registered nurse at Houston Methodist Hospital.
“I have a niece who was taken into human trafficking about five years ago in Indianapolis. She…
By Bob Kehoe
Kimberly Williams is no stranger to human trafficking. She learned the hard realities of its victims nearly a decade ago while living in Charlotte, N.C., after attending a conference on the subject through her church.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted an errata for the Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Groups definitions manual for the ICD-10 coding system.
Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos, M.D., director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Human Trafficking Initiative, shares how clinicians are key to stopping the cycle of human trafficking, and how new ICD-10 codes that went into effect Oct. 1 can help.
Starting today, health care providers can use any of 29 ICD-10 diagnostic codes to identify and document victims of human trafficking.