It takes a village to raise a child, but it took an integrated, multi-discipled team approach to improve patient safety indicators (PSIs) at ChristianaCare – as you’ll learn more about on Tuesday, Oct. 18, during the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, the popular, long-running Internet radio program produced by ICD10monitor.

In cooperation with ChristianaCare, Talk Ten Tuesdays and ICD10monitor are beginning a new series on PSIs, with specific focus on how a team approach is helping physicians avoid unwittingly triggering such issues through their documentation. Reporting the lead story will be Varadarajan Subbiah, MD, MBA, FACP, Vice President of Utilization Management and Quality for ChristianaCare, a major nonprofit teaching hospital system headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. You will hear Dr. Subbiah report that their analysis concluded that documentation and coding represent among the biggest opportunities for improvement, and that externally reported ranking programs and the associated financial penalties served as their catalyst for change.   

Other segments during the live broadcast will include the following:

• E&M Update: Senior healthcare consultant Colleen Deighan Ejak with 3M Health will continue her series on the updates to evaluation and management (E&M) codes for 2023;
• Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the latest coding news;
• News Desk: Timothy Powell, CPA will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk; and
• TalkBack: Erica Remer,MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.  

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Long awaited and highly anticipated is the new the Industry Practice Brief Guidelines to Achieving a Compliant Query Practice©, scheduled to released Monday, Oct. 10.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) have co-authored an update to the Industry Practice Brief Guidelines to Achieving a Compliant Query Practice©.

Many important elements have been updated and added to the practice brief to meet the demands of the ever-changing landscape of America’s healthcare ecosystem to help ensure all query professionals have the tools necessary to remain compliant. The practice brief was developed with many industry experts to ensure it is all encompassing. Reporting our lead story during the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be Melissa Potts, a CDI practitioner of HIM Practice Excellence for AHIMA. She provides clinical documentation (CDI) practice expertise to AHIMA and its members. 

Other segments during the live broadcast include the following:

• E&M Update: Senior healthcare consultant Colleen Deighan with 3M Health, continues her series on the updates to E&M codes for 2023.
  
  
• Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the latest coding news.
  
  
• News Desk: Timothy Powell, CPA will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.
  
  
• Journaling John: John Zelem, MD, FACS, founder and CEO for Streamline Solutions Consulting, will continue with his journal entry.
  
  
• TalkBack: Erica Remer,MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.  

Important healthcare news is happening at a furious rate and that is why the editorial team at ICD10monitor and Talk Ten Tuesdays is producing a national healthcare news roundup to deliver the news you need to know. During this special 60-minute broadcast you learn the latest coding news, as well as news about updates to the 2023 E&M coding and guideline changes, plus discover how one major health system has created a multi-disciplined team to master patient safety indicators. 

The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced significant revisions to Evaluation and Management (E&M) services for 2023.  Consultations, inpatient and outpatient consultations, are two of the E&M categories being revised for Jan. 1, 2023.  The revisions made to consultations include code deletions, revision to the criteria for E&M level selection and additions to the guidelines. Reporting our lead story during the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be Colleen Deighan, senior consultant with 3M.  

Other segments during the live broadcast include the following:

• Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the latest coding news.
  
  
• Mental Health Report: Internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. H. Steven Moffic returns to the broadcast with an update on burnout—this in advance of National Depression Month in October, which follows September’s Suicide Awareness Month.
  
  
• Talk Law: Healthcare attorney Karen George with the law firm of Buchalter, continues her series on the intersection of healthcare and the law.
  
  
• News Desk: Timothy Powell, CPA, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.
  
  
• TalkBack: Erica Remer,MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.  

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Hospital inpatient denials continue at a furious pace.

And there is strong evidence of a pattern of denied claims with a principal or secondary diagnosis of sepsis, a principal or secondary diagnosis of acute respiratory failure and denied hospital inpatient claims with the secondary diagnosis of malnutrition. When it comes to denials for a diagnosis of malnutrition, there appears to an additional focus on ICD-10-CM code of E43 Unspecified Severe Protein-Calorie Malnutrition.

Finding the root cause of the denial and then identifying solutions is the direction to improve compliance and obtain accurate patient severity data and reimbursement, as you will learn from national coding expert Gloryanne Bryant during the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays.

Other segments during the live broadcast include the following:

• Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the latest coding news.
  
  
• E&M Update: Senior healthcare consultant Colleen Deighan with 3M Health, continues her series on the updates to E&M codes for 2023.
  
  
• CDI Report: Cheryl Ericson, a recognized clinical documentation integrity (CDI) subject matter expert will report on clinical validation denials.
  
  
• News Desk: Timothy Powell, CPA will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.
  
  
• Journaling John: John Zelem, MD, FACS, founder and CEO for Streamline Solutions Consulting, will continue with his journal entry.
  
  
• POV: Healthcare attorney Karen M. George with the law firm of Buchalter, will substitute for Dr. Erica Remer, and will share of her Point of View (POV) with audience members.

Extensive changes are coming your way for hospital observation and inpatient services. And the time to prepare is now and this upcoming live edition of the long-running Talk Ten Tuesday broadcast is the place to begin to grasp the breadth and depth of these revisions from the American Medical Association.

Colleen Deighan, senior consultant with 3M, will continue the second in her multi-series of reports as she discusses the two evaluation and management (E&M) categories including guideline changes for reporting these services accurately and sharing steps you will need to take for preparing your physicians and your coding staff for success.  

Other segments during the live broadcast include the following:

• Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the ongoing Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting taking place at that hour in the CMS headquarters in Baltimore.
  
  
• Mental Health Report: Internationally renowned psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic reports on the nation’s state of mental health.
  
  
• RegWatch: Stanley Nachimson, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) career professional-turned-well-known healthcare IT authority, will report on the latest regulatory news coming out of Washington, D.C.
  
  
• News Desk: Timothy Powell, CPA will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.
  
  
• Journaling John: John Zelem, MD, FACS, founder and CEO for Streamline Solutions Consulting, will continue with his journal entry.
  
  
• TalkBack: Erica Remer,MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.  

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The American Medical Association (AMA) revised the criteria for evaluation and management (E&M) services for the Office Visit categories of New and Established patients.  For 2023, similar revisions have been approved for the remainder of the E&M section. Revisions were also made to services for emergency, observation, inpatient, consultations, nursing, home and residence and prolonged care.

During the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesday, Colleen Deighan, senior consultant with 3M, will begin her first in a multi-series of reports, sharing key revisions and identifying important steps for preparing physicians and coding staff for success.  

Other segments during the live broadcast include the following:

• Coding Report: Meg DeVoe, senior product manager for TruCode, and who will be substituting for Laurie Johnson, will report on the latest coding news.
• Mental Health Report: Internationally renowned psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic reports on the nation’s state of mental health, noting a slightly optimist job satisfaction among America’s psychiatrists.
• News Desk: Timothy Powell, CPA will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.
• Journaling John: John Zelem, MD, FACS, founder and CEO for Streamline Solutions Consulting, will continue with his journal entry.
• TalkBack: Erica Remer,MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.