Essays on Coding System

I. Challenges Given current case, one best planning strategy to adopt is a combination of Team Involvement and Reciprocity (Dunn, 2015). As not all coders agree on proposed change, persuading remaining coder could be "bought in" by seeking support of another manager, probably in Human Resources Department (HRM). This selection is based on a performance-compensation basis. More specifically, a change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 should be "sold" to non-boarding coder based on a better performance due to more enhanced capabilities of ICD-10 compared to ICD-9 and hence more workflow efficiencies and, ultimately, more customer satisfaction and better compensation prospects. ...

The use of electronic patient record systems and their associated information applications has received considerable political support over the past decade. For example, in the United States, health care informatics was a primary component in the presidential campaigns of both Senators Barrack Obama and John McCain (Hoffman and Podgurski, 2008). Accordingly, after Obama was elected to the seat, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed in 2009. This law is traditionally referred to as the “Stimulus Bill”. In the following year after it was implemented, the Unite States government invested $148 billion in the health care of which ...

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The majority of sports leadership studies focuses on the coach, his or her effectiveness, and relationship with the team. However, the coach is not the only leader, as the athletes also perform roles of formal and informal leaders. Furthermore, the majority of studies involve only quantitative approaches, which become the reason of such issues as the absence of description and methodological flaws. The absence of description means that quantitative approach cannot provide details about social ...

Impact of ICD-10-CMS/PCS on MS-DRGs

Introduction Procedural and diagnosis codes, as well as their associated descriptions, play an important role in numerous health care processes. For instance, both hospitals and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rely on coded information to help run primary care activities. Such activities include reimbursement management, care optimization, and population health monitoring among others. As this happens, there is a need for constant technological changes and upgrades to facilitate accuracy and completeness in data transmission. The recent movement from the ICD-9 code set to ICD-10 is a perfect example of such upgrades. This paper shows that the ...