Avoiding Confusion over Critical Care Services

What may seem relatively straightforward to some coders has been a headache, presenting confusion and ambiguity, for others, when it comes to charging for critical care services. During this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, nationally recognized professional physician coder and auditor Terry Fletcher will focus not only on coding but also documentation compliance when reporting such services.

The broadcast also features these other segments:

• The Revenue Cycle Report: Bonnie S. Cassidy, nationally renowned health information management (HIM) authority, reports on the importance of ICD-10 coding in the revenue cycle.
  
  
• Dateline Washington: Leslie Krigstein, vice president of congressional affairs for the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), reports on the latest healthcare news coming out of Washington, D.C. 
  
  
• News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert, and ICD10monitor national correspondent anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.
  
  
• TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, discuss' the need for physicians to take care of the whole patient, without a preoccupation with DRGs and CC/MCCs.