Childhood immunizations were at 4 stars, adolescent immunizations at 3 stars, and there were plenty of 4-star scores for prenatal / postnatal care, breast and cervical cancer screening, diabetes care, and appropriate use of antibiotics. Those scores are due to the diligence of the providers w...
The odds of dying increased with the number of comorbidities from OR=.635; .559-.721 for 1 to OR = 4.23; 3.28-5.46 for 7. From 4967 comorbid diseases (451 ICD-10 codes), only those from code groups A, J, N, E, I, Z were suitable for analysis. Patients with A41.9 (OR = ...
Jayne described where an ICD-10 software change will cause clinical (rather than billing) consequences? For vendors, when was your final ICD-10 software update released? For vendors, how many of your customers have installed the latest ICD-10 software update? For customers, are you scrambling t...
in which researchers can run query of 1.2 million patients to determine which 10% of those with diabetes are most likely to have an ED encounter in the next two months.
Diabetes mellitus (DM) increases atherosclerotic cardiovascular complications and cancer risks. Stomach cancer is the most common cancer in Korea. Although
(3) the vendor’s ability to share a plan for ICD-10 (few have been thinking ahead); (4) the vendor’s use of ICD-9 in application and interface logic, such as order checking rules and code-to-procedure checking rules); and (5) the use of discrete ICD-9 or groups of ICD-9s ...
The United StatessuesNew York City and CSC for Medicaid billing fraud, claiming that the city used the default settings of CSC’s billing system to bypass Medicaid’s secondary payor requirement and used generic ICD-9 codes that they knew Medicaid would pay more quickly. ...