Clinical Coding

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 30-Day risk-standardized mortality and readmission rates after ischemic stroke in critical access hospitals. 
  • A "shocking" new code status. 
  • Accuracy of international classification of diseases, ninth revision, clinical modification billing codes for common ophthalmic conditions. 
  • An alternative strategy for perinatal verbal autopsy coding: single versus multiple coders. 
  • Clinician's Primer to ICD-10-CM Coding for Cleft Lip/Palate Care. 
  • Code Abdomen: An Assessment Coding Scheme for Abdominal Imaging Findings Possibly Representing Cancer. 
  • Evaluation of ICD-9-CM codes for craniofacial microsomia. 
  • ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM mapping of the AAST Emergency General Surgery disease severity grading systems: Conceptual approach, limitations, and recommendations for the future. 
  • Marijuana use and inpatient outcomes among hospitalized patients: analysis of the nationwide inpatient sample database. 
  • Physician practice competition and prices paid by private insurers for office visits. 
  • Questioning concomitant cystoscopy coding during hysterectomy in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Referring Provider Perceptions of Standardized Reporting for Possible Abdominal Cancer. 
  • Specificity of administrative coding for older adults with acute heart failure hospitalizations. 
  • The capacity of ICD-10-CM/PCS to characterize surgical care. 
  • Top ten inpatient palliative medicine billing and coding mistakes (and how to fix them this week). 
  • Use of diagnosis codes for detection of clinically significant opioid poisoning in the emergency department: A retrospective analysis of a surveillance case definition.