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By Kimberly Farley
In Coding
Oct 1st, 2019
Comments Off on Learn and Apply the 2020 ICD-10-PCS Code Updates
To help you ease into new coding, consume the changes in the sections that will impact your daily claims processing. Even with a decrease in the amount of ICD-10-PCS codes for fiscal year 2020, it can seem a bit daunting to take in 734 new codes, two ...
Don’t forget to review guideline changes while you familiarize yourself with 2019 code updates. For fiscal year 2019, we have 78,881 ICD-10-PCS codes to work with. Thankfully, there aren’t quite as many updates as last year: 392 new codes, eight revis...
In understanding each other’s role in healthcare reimbursement, coders and CDI specialists make a dynamic duo. In healthcare, we can no longer work in silos, separate from each other, doing our own thing, unaware of what other staffers are doing. We m...
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