The following Q&A comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website. Q: What is semi-automated review?

CMS has identified massive incorrect use of place-of-service codes for Medicare Part B services performed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, according to a report in the RAC Monitor.

Navicure, an account receivables management company, has partnered with the American Academy of Professional Coders to develop educational resources for medical practices regarding the transition to the HIPAA 5010 standard and ICD-10, according to a Navicure news release.

Elizabeth Lamkin, CEO of Pace Healthcare Consulting in Hilton Head, S.C., answers a reader's question about recovery audit contractors' denials of claims that mistakenly identify drug dosages by milligrams instead of by six-milligram units. Ms. Lamkin mentioned this problem in…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology mentions ICD-10 implementation only once in its "Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2011-2015," according to an ICD10Watch.com report.

With Medicare recovery audit contractors racking up more claims denials, hospitals are forced to put more time and energy into improving their claims-processing track record.

The American Hospital Association says changing to ICD-10 makes the Oct. 1, 2012 deadline for stage two of meaningful use unrealistic, according to an AHA advocacy issue paper on health information technology.

The American Hospital Association has found constant increases in hospital participation in its RACTrac initiative, according to AHA RACTrac reports.

Ernie de los Santos, chief information officer for eduTrax, has written extensively on RAC issues in the RAC Monitor and the Medical Coding Journal. Here he talks about his ongoing efforts to figure out all the riddles of RAC posts…

On Oct. 1, 2013, ICD-10-CM (clinical modification) and ICD-10-PCS (procedural coding system) will be implemented into the HIPAA mandated code, increasing the number of codes from around 13,600 under ICD-9 to around 69,000 under ICD-10. Here are four predictions from…