Medical Coding
How Specific Can You Get? — Medical Coding Fundamentals, Lesson 2
Laterality, episode of care, placeholder X's, and why the system demands a level of precision that the record often fails to capture.…
Medical Coding
icd-10-CM
What's Wrong With You? —Medical Coding Fundamentals, Lesson 1
What ICD-10-CM is, where it came from, and why every diagnosis needs a code.…
Billing
The Bill You Can't Read
Hospitals are required by law to publish what they charge. As it turns out, it means absolutely nothing.…
HIM
You Have ADHD. YOU Have ADHD! Everyone Has ADHD!
How a shadow diagnostic system got into the official record and why nobody cares.…
HIM
The Burden That Was Never Counted
How measles-associated hearing loss disappeared between codes…