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Report From Vegas: Can’t Afford to Take a Crapshoot
With the Bottom Line
By Paul Weygandt, MD, JD
This year’s Healthcare Financial Management Association ANI conference was held in Las Vegas, and the irony of the location choice wasn’t lost on attendees. With frequent regulatory changes, it seems as though health care administrative teams have been forced into a card game—and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Over the last three years, I’ve seen some hospitals hold and others fold. Despite the tumult, this year’s conference revealed a renewed sense of purpose, and participants were prepared with a laser focus on finding the right knowledge, strategies, and approaches for their distinct organizational needs and challenges.
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Go All in at ACE 2014
By Heather Hogstrom
The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity’s annual conference will take place from July 23 to 26 in Las Vegas, but attendees can rest assured that what they learn in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas. The conference provides encouragement, motivation, and inspiration for health care documentation specialists and other HIM professionals, and offers opportunities to learn about trends and discuss important issues in the health care documentation field, earn continuing education credits, meet with recruiters about employment opportunities, and visit with exhibitors to see the latest tools, technology, and services.
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CathMaps+ App
CathMaps+ is a HIPAA-compliant mobile application for people with an elevated risk of a cardiac incident—particularly those with a history of cardiac issues—that integrates critical health history and medical records with an interactive map of catheterization facilities throughout the world. The app ensures that patients quickly locate and are directed to a medical facility with a catheterization lab. Learn more »
Do One Thing App, Website
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance has launched a mobile app and website to help people adopt healthier habits that can reduce their risk of developing cancer. The campaign encourages people to pick one healthy change and do it every day until it becomes a habit. App users can select habits such as eating breakfast every day, drinking water, flossing, going to bed at a regular time, or taking the stairs instead of the elevator, from a preexisting library, create their own habits, share their new habits with friends, set daily reminders, and track their progress. Learn more »
App Detects Mood Swings via Voice Analysis
University of Michigan researchers are developing a smartphone app that monitors subtle qualities of a person’s voice during everyday phone conversations to detect early signs of mood changes in people with bipolar disorder. The app runs in the background on a smartphone and automatically monitors the patients’ voice patterns during any calls made as well as during weekly conversations with a member of the patient’s care team. The computer program analyzes many characteristics of the sounds and silences of each conversation. Mood states can be detected by analyzing broad features and properties of speech, without violating the privacy of the conversations. To be eligible for the app study, patients must first enroll in the long-term study of bipolar disorder, which accepts adults with and without bipolar disorder. Learn more » |
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Can you tell me the appropriate diagnosis code for a 6-month-old who had an ultrasound exam to check for dysplasia of the hips after breech presentation? Someone suggested V82.3. Would this be correct? There are doctors in my area having babies who were born breech checked for hip dysplasia every two months. They say the American Academy of Pediatrics is suggesting these follow-ups, and we will be getting more and more of these cases to code.
Margaret Rigsby, RHIT, CCA
Shady Spring, West Virginia
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The V82.3 would be the appropriate code for the screening exam and to support medical necessity.
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