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Get the most up-to-minute news and information on ICD-10. Join Chuck Buck and Erica Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, 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

Get the most up-to-minute news and information on ICD-10. Join Chuck Buck and Erica Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, 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

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Get the most up-to-minute news and information on ICD-10. Join Chuck Buck and Erica Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, 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

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Episodes

Exclusive: Improving Documentation for PSI-9

1/26/2021
There has long been a focus on improving documentation for the purpose of maximizing the capture of complications and morbidities and major complications and morbidities (CCs and MCCs). As value-based purchasing is becoming more widely adopted, the importance of improving documentation is becoming more relevant. Case in point: the importance of coagulopathy documentation and its impact on perioperative hemorrhage and hematoma, a patient safety indictor (PSI-9). Reporting our lead story...

Duration:00:28:53

The Reality of Care Rationing

1/19/2021
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus is approaching the number of Americans killed in World War II, and as America is experiencing another surge of infections, the once-unthinkable subject of rationing care is now being debated. But how is care to be rationed? Is there a uniform guide for triaging care, as the availability of all beds, ICU beds, ventilators, and other hospital equipment is weighed, based on the acuity of each patient? As John Zelem, MD wrote recently for RACmonitor,...

Duration:00:28:50

COVID-19 Relief Bill: Conversion Factor Increases Twice in One Week

1/12/2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2021 Final Rule and 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) are effective Jan. 1, 2021, and both affect reimbursement. But in a rare move, CMS increased the conversion factor (CF) in the MPFS twice in one week as a result of the COVID-19 relief bill, which added a hike of 3.75 percent. For an update on the major CMS changes for 2021 that will affect your reimbursement under the Part B Physician Fee Schedule, tune in to the next live...

Duration:00:28:49

News Update: New Monoclonal Antibody Infusion Underway

12/8/2020
Out in the West Texas “town” of El Paso, a number of COVID-19 patients are being treated with a new monoclonal antibody infusion called bamlanivimab. Now in the second week of the operation being conducted in the El Paso Convention Center’s makeshift hospital, Dr. Edward Michelson, Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, reports that while treatments are underway, there hasn’t been enough time to gather data on the effects and outcomes....

Duration:00:32:39

COVID Conundrum: Who’s Paying for Personal Protective Equipment?

12/1/2020
There’s a recently added CPT® code for personal protective equipment (PPE). But there’s a corresponding catch: who pays and who doesn’t, and what’s the best practice for handling the new normal in physician practices? Could the new code, 99072, although a payable service by Medicare, as well as commercial payers, wind up being a patient’s out-of-pocket expense? Reporting our lead story during the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be nationally recognized professional coder and...

Duration:00:29:48

Exclusive Series: In Search of Solutions to COVID-19 False Positives

11/24/2020
Thanksgiving, the flu season, and a dramatic surge of the COVID-19 pandemic are converging at a time when the nation’s coronavirus death toll has reportedly exceeded 250,000, with more than 11 million confirmed cases. With soaring infection rates come more testing, as well as more hospitalizations and deaths. A focus on COVID-19 testing will come into sharp relief as Talk Ten Tuesdays concludes its exclusive three-part series on false-positive tests. During this episode, co-host Erica...

Duration:00:30:45

COVID-19 False Positives and Real-Life Implications for Long-term Care

11/17/2020
The global coronavirus pandemic is worsening quickly, and at a time when winter is bearing down, forcing more of us to remain inside. In fact, health experts are predicting that confirmed daily cases of COVID-19 will climb above 200,000 nationally. With soaring infection rates come more testing, as well as more hospitalizations and deaths. A focus on COVID-19 testing will come into sharp relief as Talk Ten Tuesdays continues with the second portion of its three-part series on false-positive...

Duration:00:29:09

COVID-19 3-Part Series: False Impressions, Real-Life Implications

11/10/2020
As the nation is experiencing a dramatic surge in confirmed cases of COVID-19, the terms “false negative” and “false positive” accompany not only medical records, but also news media dispatches. The public health establishment and the medical world have generally treated positive results of PCR-based tests for the virus that causes COVID-19 as if they are infallible. The evidence shows that this may not be true, and there are real-life implications of false positives – yet to date, there...

Duration:00:29:46

Exclusive Live Open-Door Broadcast: Coding and Coping with Stress and Tension

11/3/2020
We are all participants in one of the most tumultuous times in the 21st century. A global pandemic rages throughout the United States and Europe, the consequences of which are tangible, but not yet fully quantified. A divisive political environment, exacerbated by 24/7 news and social media, has intensified our feelings about ourselves, our colleagues, neighbors, and family members. Stress and tension abound, of which the consequences are many, with depression and anxiety also taking a...

Duration:00:30:06

Where in the World is ICD-11?

10/27/2020
Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 presidential campaign, coding updates, and a tangle of regulatory waivers, it’s important to not to lose sight of the fact that ICD-11 for the United States is on the horizon. That’s why we asked Margaret Skurka, a voting member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) in Washington, D.C., who also sits at the table of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Education and Implementation Committee, to report on the latest...

Duration:00:33:55

America in the Grip of an Unrelenting COVID-19 Pandemic

10/20/2020
In the deadly throes of a global pandemic, Americans are struggling as they adjust to a confusing new normal. Halloween this year will portend an actual frightening threat. And America’s traditional Thanksgiving dinner will have an unwanted guest: COVID-19, the elephant in the room. The coronavirus continues to dominate headlines, family dinner conversations, political debates, congressional hearings, and the news media. During this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, providing a physician’s...

Duration:00:27:18

Coding Sequela to COVID-19: Part II

10/13/2020
Once a frequent flyer with all the attendant privileges, senior healthcare consultant Deborah Grider was abruptly grounded when COVID-19 curtailed her coast-to-coast consulting. She first reported on her sequela from the coronavirus infection, the disease that causes COVID-19, for Talk Ten Tuesdays listeners in July. Now, she will return to the long-running broadcast to report on several other conditions that have arisen. About one in six people who have survived COVID-19 are expected to...

Duration:00:34:32

Exclusive: Auditors Are Back with a Vengeance

10/6/2020
Given the importance of medical review activities relative to the program integrity efforts of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and regardless of the status of the current federal public health emergency (PHE), providers can expect imminent pre- and post-payment reviews, plus audits by Supplemental Medical Review Contractors (SMRCs) and the Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs). Reporting our lead story during this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be nationally recognized...

Duration:00:31:46

Dealing with Coding and Clinical Validation Denials with Medicare Advantage Organizations

9/29/2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has ordered Medicare Advantage Organization (MAO), -hired subcontractors, to stop issuing “pseudo-denials” that require pseudo-appeals before the MAO considers the denial formalized. Reporting our lead story during this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be Dr. Edward Hu, system executive director of physician advisor services for UNC Health in North Carolina. Dr. Hu was one of several healthcare executives who convinced CMS to issue a...

Duration:00:29:38

Site-Neutral Payments Expected to Trigger a Court Battle

9/22/2020
Battle lines in a budding court battle could be drawn soon. A federal appeals court has reversed the decision of a lower court and upheld the action by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to pay formerly grandfathered off-campus outpatient departments run by hospitals at the same, lower rate of physician clinics. Experts believe that could mean a potential loss of $800 million to these already struggling hospitals, the finances of which have been especially hit hard...

Duration:00:30:41

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Social Determinants of Health

9/15/2020
COVID-19 is disrupting the stability of food, shelter, and sleep. Stress levels are unthinkable. The continuing pandemic, along with unemployment, racial injustice, and social isolation, is raising anxiety and depression to high levels as well. Moreover, it’s been reported that ongoing stress can decrease the body’s lymphocyte levels, making infection more likely. This cycle is evident among COVID patients. Reporting on this untenable situation during the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays...

Duration:00:28:22

Dateline Washington: IPPS Final Rule: Comment and Analysis

9/10/2020
The long-awaited and highly anticipated Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final rule was released late Tuesday afternoon, September 2nd. Due to the rule being published Tuesday, Sept. 2, you and your team have precious little time to prepare for these changes since the IPPS becomes effective Oct. 1, 2020. Joining us today for this special Talk Ten Tuesdays is Stanley Nachimson is a former CMS career professional and is the founder of Nachimson Advisors, LLC; and Laurie Johnson, senior...

Duration:00:11:32

CMS Requires Positive COVID-19 Test Results for 20% Medicare Add-on Payment

9/1/2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) started rolling out post-payment audits again, as of Aug. 3, but now – after finding inconsistencies in the accuracy of some COVID-19 tests, and considering the fact that CMS has been paying an additional 20 percent to providers and facilities “treating patients with COVID or testing for COVID” – the agency has enacted a new mandate to qualify for the increased reimbursement. During the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, Terry...

Duration:00:30:18

EXCLUSIVE: Sleeping Patterns Gone Awry Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

8/25/2020
Plenty of time at home. Self-isolation. Binge-watching television shows. No commuting. Working remotely. You would think that with all the time spent at home these days, folks would be getting more and better sleep, right? Wrong! The truth is, according to Dr. Nick van Terheyden, that there are daunting obstacles to getting a good night’s sleep, with all the additional worries and fear induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated challenges in our economy and society. Reporting our lead...

Duration:00:30:05

EXCLUSIVE: Dissecting the 2021 OPPS Proposed Rule

8/18/2020
It’s out and it’s already creating controversy: the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule, which becomes effective January 2021. The rule, issued Aug. 4, would eliminate the Medicare inpatient-only list of services while increasing the number of Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC)-eligible procedures. The rule would also increase 340B payment cuts, and it looks to overhaul the hospital star-rating system. It’s an interesting...

Duration:00:29:12

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