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Talk Ten Tuesdays
Get the most up-to-minute news and information on ICD-10. Join Chuck Buck and Angela Comfort, DBA, MBA, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P, every Tuesday as they welcome ICD10monitor contributing editors and special guests to monitor and report on the progress that all healthcare stakeholders are experiencing i...
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700th Commemorative Live Broadcast of Talk Ten Tuesday
Tuesday, July 28 marks the 700th live edition of the commemorative Talk Ten Tuesdays broadcast. And in honor of this celebration, the ICD10monitor pro...
Behavioral Health Amid the Coding Crisis
The squeeze is on.
Federal enforcement is intensifying, with behavioral health agencies facing heightened scrutiny following revealing re...
Understanding the Misunderstanding: Secondary Reviews
The secondary review: Corrective Backup? Or a layer of quality assurance?
Given that clinical documentation integrity (CDI) invariably has inter...
Twin Horns of a Dilemma: Inpatient Status without the IPO List
What happens when the Inpatient-Only (IPO) List goes away?
The entire list is expected to be eliminated Jan. 1, 2028.
This will necessitat...
ACDIS-AHIMA Query Practice Brief: No More Public Comment, so Listen to Talk Ten Tuesday
Public comments have closed on the 2026 AHIMA-ACDIS Query Practice Brief.
In other words, the time to talk is over, and the time to liste...
Spice Up Documentation: Bring on the PEPPER
After a two-year hiatus, the PEPPER (Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report) is back. It’s now available to all acute care hospital...
How Does Your Physician Advisor Measure Up?
Nearly every American hospital has at least one physician advisor.
So, how does the physician advisor at your facility measure up? We rea...
The New Battle in the Era of AI
There’s a quiet battle taking place, with no field hospitals for the sick and wounded, and no bloodshed.
But the stakes are high, and the losses...
Artificial Intelligence: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Although one could conclude that artificial intelligence (AI) is a relatively new technology in healthcare, the reality is that AI has been silently w...
Healthcare Technology Demystified: The Series Begins
At last, the secrets of healthcare technology will be revealed during a fresh new two-part series, especially written for the accomplished healthcare...
Help! Too Many Hats, not Enough Heads!
The role of physician advisor began as a friendly clinical champion for case/utilization management and clinical documentation integrity (CDI) teams....
ACDIS-AHIMA Proposed Practice Brief: Comment Period Now Open
What’s new for the proposed 2026 American Health Information Management Association/Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (AHIMA...
Learn Something New: How Payer Logs can be a UR Resource
Learning how daily payer logs can help you and your utilization review (UR) team identify denials earlier, strengthen communication between UR and cli...
LIVE from ACDIS, James S. Kennedy MD: Analysis of the 2027 IPPS Proposed Rule
The Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) will conclude the formal agenda of its Annual Conference at the close of busin...
Tips to Protect Revenue in the Face of OIG Oversight
Many of you dedicated healthcare professionals no doubt often find yourselves wearing many different hats, as does Penny Jefferson, cohost of the long...
Outpatient CDI: Protecting Risk Adjustment in a Time of Intensified OIG Oversight
As federal oversight of risk adjustment and documentation practices intensifies, healthcare organizations are facing new scrutiny regarding how patien...
Clinically Correct, but Legally Risky
A recent False Claims Act case is raising an important question for CDI professionals: what if the diagnosis is clinically valid, but the process behi...
Yet Another Data Breach
Data breaches have unfortunately become a fact of life in America’s healthcare system.
The next edition of the popular Talk Ten Tuesdays will fo...
Part 3: Building a Neurodiverse Coding Workforce: Results and Impact
After two powerful segments introducing her neurodiversity coding initiative, Tami McMasters Gomez, Executive Director for the Mid-Revenue Cycle, Ente...
Rising Dispute: Clinical Validation Audits
The rise of third-party payer audits is no secret to healthcare professionals and facilities, but one type of audit has gained particular attention in...
The Breach Impacting Coders, CDISs, HIM Professionals – and Millions
It’s huge, and serious.
Its implications may impact millions, even beyond the halls of healthcare. In fact, it’s the eighth-largest healthcare-r...
Groundbreaking Series Continues
Part II of the groundbreaking Talk Ten Tuesday series concludes as Tami McMasters Gomez returns to share the real-world impact of UC Davis Health’s ne...
Gone but Not Forgotten: The Inpatient-Only List
Once a relic symbolic of earlier times in medicine, the Inpatient-Only (IPO) List has been added to the junkyard of outdated medical processes and pra...
Where Are the Best Coders? Part II
What if the solution to healthcare’s coding workforce challenges has been hiding in plain sight?
The conversation doesn’t end with rethinking wh...
Where Are the Best Coders? A Special Two-Part Series
What if the solution to healthcare’s coding workforce challenges has been hiding in plain sight?
During this special two-part Talk Ten Tuesday s...
2026 National Coding Roundup
While many of you might have been enjoying the holiday season, the
beat of healthcare keeps on beating.
Much has happened in the world of...
Artificial Intelligence and Coding: The Series Continues
What’s new when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and coding?
Listen to the next edition of the long-running and popular Talk Ten Tuesday...
Apple, Chair, Ocean, Book, Clock
Are you wondering what connects the nouns in the headline together?
It’s a Medicare cognitive screening devise. Look at these words and c...
CMS Conditions of Coverage: A Deep Dive
Anyone who has been working within the scope of hospital case/utilization management for any period of time has heard of the Centers for Medicare and...
Welcome to the Coding and CDI Congress
They were once called “clinical documentation improvement” specialists, charged with correcting the medical record to identify an overlooked diagnosis...
Improving Patient Care for Non-Medical Needs
Since 80 percent of a person’s health is influenced by factors outside of medical care, it is critical that a healthcare system has an understanding a...
Words Matter Most: Patient Status
It’s often said that “words matter.”
And hospital patient status assignment is no exception.
What do your teams say when a patient is in...
IMPORTANT: New Version of Sepsis Released
A new version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, has been introduced.
The new revision aligns the organ dysfunction measur...
Your Doctor Is Not an AI Babysitter
Welcome to “Is Ambient Listening Right for You?” Or, in the alternative, “Free AI Tools and Other Expensive Mistakes.”
Nick van Terheyden, MD, t...
CDI On Strike: When Fiscal Strain Meets Human Capacity
H.R. 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), is set to reshape hospital finances by cutting an estimated $840 billion from Medicaid and Pa...
Misinformation and Misdirection are Lurking
Have you been told that Medicare and Medicare Advantage (MA) patients who have difficulties with activities of daily living (ADLs) are appropriate for...
LIVE FROM AHIMA: 2025 AHIMA Conference
Join us this coming Tuesday, Oct. 14, when Talk Ten Tuesday will bring you an exclusive interview with two nationally recognized healthcare leaders: T...
Revenue Cycle Roundup: Exclusive News Broadcast
The revenue cycle helps keep hospital revenue flowing. But sometimes, it seems to sputter out, as if not all the cylinders are firing. And that is why...
Deep Dive: 2026 IPPS: Beware of Key Changes
When the final rule take effect Oct. 1, 2025, coders, providers, and administration leaders will need to adjust to several key changes, including the...
Too Much of a Good Thing: Prolonged Hospitalization
Prolonged hospitalizations can result from many different barriers and delays within the hospital setting.
However, a new challenge is emerging....