MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'icd-9'. Tue, 04 May 2010 18:45:22 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2862512&cid=t_208793_105_f&fid=38964&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdrwes.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fif-lawyers-billed-like-doctors-billed.html Imagine if lawyers had to bill like doctors:Beginning July 1, 2010, under the Legal Billing Obfuscation Act of 2009, lawyers will receive their payments for services rendered after approval by a central US government Payment Distribution Authority (USPDA). To receive payment from the Authority plaintiff and defendant complaints must be coded and filed electronically using the International Classification of Legal Complaints, 10th edition (ICLD-10), copyright © 2009, American Bar Association and Legal Proceeding Terminology (LPT) codes, copyright © 2009 American Bar Association. The full publication of each of these codes will be available in print March 1st 2010 and in electronic form on DVD in July 2011. To familiarize lawyers with the new coding scheme requested by the USPDA, a small s... Dr. Wes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2862512 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:07:00 +0100 2862512 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2727246&cid=t_208793_113_f&fid=38130&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tempdev.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D882 Occasionally when you’re working in the field you run into products that make everyone’s life easier and you want to tell everyone about them because you like them so much. I have run into a new product that I like and doctors love: IMO. One of the biggest problems providers face when going on an EHR is finding the diagnosis for the patient. Often times the EHR uses Ingenix and doesn’t provide any other form of mapping. So what does IMO do that’s different? IMO takes 15,000 ICD9s and maps them to 160,000 terms so that providers can use their own terminology to finally be able to find the diagnosis they’re looking for. SNOMED uses only 90,000. The other great thing? For groups who want to get better at HCC/RAF coding, they provide assistance with that also! Yo... Implementing EMRs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2727246 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:21:58 +0100 2727246 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2353921&cid=t_208793_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2F08nCQqKnxoE%2F I’ve been hearing a bit of discussion about ICD-10 really helping to solve some of the problems of interoperability. Their contention is basically that ICD-10 is more precise in its description of the diagnosis and so therefore the information that is coded using ICD-10 will then provide more specific codified information that can then be rather easily shared. If you haven’t read about the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10, here’s a good article about the transition. In theory, this is completely accurate. If everything went as outlined, we could really get a lot of interesting information for studies and for interoperability of health data out of our ICD-10 codes. The problem is that in reality ICD-10 is just going to cause even more problems for sharing quality data. Not ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2353921 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:55:05 +0100 2353921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2108645&cid=t_208793_113_f&fid=38130&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tempdev.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D534 Remember that whole blog I had the other day about how the government should lead by example? Well today they pushed the implementation of ICD-10 codes by 2 years. See, I feel like no one takes any regulation in health care seriously because every time they release a regulation, it always ends up getting pushed a couple of years. If you’d like to read more about it, head on over to HHS Issues Final ICD-10 Code Sets and Updated Electronic Transaction Standards Rules. My favorite quote was: “These regulations will move the nation toward a more efficient, quality-focused health care system by helping accelerate the widespread adoption of health information technology,” HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said.  “The greatly expanded ICD-10 code sets will fully support quality reporting, p... Implementing EMRs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2108645 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:09:47 +0100 2108645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2513578&cid=t_208793_177_f&fid=38133&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTubalReversalBlog%2F%7E3%2FfhkGRysDM1A%2Fpost-tubal-ligation-syndrome.html Dr. Berger gives helpful advice to women with symptoms of Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome that may help with them with insurance coverage for testing and treatment. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog) Tubal Reversal Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2513578 Sat, 03 May 2008 22:54:30 +0100 2513578