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You are faced with significant code changes and reimbursement challenges every year. Ensure you stay current with a leading coding and reimbursement resource geared toward your professional work --- the Ingenix ICD-9-CM Expert for Hospitals. Loaded with innovative features and content to address regulatory changes and challenges for facilities, this Expert choice helps you comply with HIPAA code set regulations and work smarter.
Expert Edition Exclusives:
Ingenix Edge — ICD-9-CM Code Changes: An Insider’s View. Find detailed, chapter-by-chapter clinical and coding tips for new 2010 codes in a single resource.
Resources: Diagnosis to MS-DRG Crosswalk, POA Tutorial with Documentation Table, CMS-DRG to MS-DRG Mapping, CC and MCC lists, and the Pharmacological Listing. Link treatment to diagnoses.
Present on admission (POA) indicator tutorial with source documentation table. Access additional explanation and examples to help simplify POA, plus official guidelines regarding use of information in the medical record.
Dx/MDC/DRG list. Enhance overall reimbursement and reduce potential fine risks with information on which MCD and DRG a specific principal Dx group falls under in the new MS-DRG system.
MCC and CC code list. Improve reimbursement with knowledge on which codes are considered MCC (major complications and comorbidities) and CC (complications and comorbidities) that impact DRG assignment.
Valid three-digit code list. See at a glance whether a code is valid for claim submission to prevent denied claims due to invalid code usage.
Email alerts for special reports. Stay current on the latest regulatory and ICD-9-CM code changes via electronic notification when new, crucial information posts to the Ingenix website.
Ingenix Hallmark Features, including:
Ingenix Edge — ICD-10 Spotlight. Preview ICD-10 codes with the most frequently reported ICD-9-CM codes to learn as you work.
Ingenix Edge — Coding Clinic and Official Coding Guideline Tips. Use citations to link to the official coding advice every coder in every healthcare setting must follow for ICD-9-CM, and find official coding tips with the codes.
Ingenix Edge — Coding Instructional Note Alert. Avoid overlooking important code instructions.
Ingenix Edge — Reformatted Table of Drugs & Chemicals and Neoplasm Table in the Index. Code with more ease and accuracy.
Symbols identify MCC and CC conditions. Ensure appropriate reimbursement by reporting patient severity correctly with references for coding conditions as primary and secondary Dx.
Hospital-acquired condition (HAC) alerts. Know which conditions when not present upon admission will not impact DRG assignment.
Adjunct procedure code alert. Learn how to properly use ICD-9-CM ‘adjunct’ codes that provide additional procedure information and cannot be used alone.
Color coding system. Increase coding accuracy and work efficiency with intuitive symbols and color coding to easily identify all major medicare code edits.
Illustrations and Definitions.
Spiralbound, 8½ x 11"
Authors: Ingenix
ISBN 978-1-60515-265-9
List Price $99.95
Sale Price: $94.95
Available Date: September 2009
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