(This sponsored blog was written by Tom Ormondroyd, vice president/general manager, Precyse Learning Solutions.) Here is a continuation of some common ICD-10 myths, from my previous blog Dispelling Some Myths About ICD-10. These are common ICD-10 myths that continue to plague all of our efforts to obtain buy-in and motivate our impacted ...

In anticipation of the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition to be held March 3 to 7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, ADVANCE interviewed Bonnie Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, senior director of HIM Innovation at Nuance and AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer. Cassidy spent the majority of her career on the ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Sandra Kersten, MPH, RHIA, who is AHIMA director of HIM Solutions.) Aneesh Chopra, the former first American federal chief technology officer of the U.S., described President Obama's overall vision for innovation, or ''how will this country get its mojo back?'' within the context of ...

  (Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Karen Kostick, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.) How do you define coding? How do you define the present and future HIM coding professional? These are a few questions presenter Nancy Hirschl, CCS, of Hirschl and Associates, posed at the Clinical ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a follow-up national provider conference call on ''ICD-10 Implementation in a 5010 Environment.'' Subject matter experts will review basic information on both ICD-10 and 5010 and explain how they are interrelated. A question and answer session will follow the ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a national provider conference call on ''ICD-10 Implementation in a 5010 Environment'' on Tuesday, June 15, from noon to 2 p.m. EST. The conference call will be geared toward medical coders, physician office staff, provider billing staff, health records staff, vendors, ...

Coders, I don't envy you. I write about you and what you do, but I wouldn't pop open a codebook and start assigning--especially now. It's nothing against the profession, it's just that with ICD-10 on the way and ICD-9 still in use, it seems like a whole lot of numbers and modifiers to juggle--and I'm a words girl.  I recently chatted with ...