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Our experts track regulatory and coding changes to bring you a premier code reference that meets all your professional coding needs. The 2009 ICD-9-CM Professional for Hospitals, Volumes 1, 2 & 3 includes new features designed to help you meet the challenges of the new reimbursement MS-DRG system . Work smarter with our hallmark color coding and intuitive symbols and integrate coding and reimbursement into a single task. |
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- New Feature! Ingenix Exclusive — Code Changes 2009— All the hallmark features of the Ingenix editions — Plus! Chapter by chapter, detailed clinical and coding information with coding scenarios for all the new codes adopted for 2009 —designed to make training and referencing the code changes a snap.
- New Feature! Ingenix Exclusive — Hospital Acquired Condition (HAC) Alerts. Know which conditions when not present upon admission will not impact DRG assignment.
- Ingenix Edge— CC and MCC Condition Symbol with Principal Diagnosis Exclusions Lists. Quickly identify comorbidities and complications that affect DRG assignment and with which PDx the condition will not affect DRG assignment.
- Ingenix Edge—AHA’s Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM References. Provides the essential official coding advice that every coder in the health care setting must follow for ICD-9-CM.
- Ingenix Edge—Color-Coded Symbols and Alerts. Color coding system. Improve coding accuracy and efficiency with intuitive symbols and color codes that alert you to crucial coding and reimbursement issues.
- IPPS compliance symbols. Quickly identify all major Medicare Code Edits (MCE) for diagnosis used to audit claims submitted under the new MS-DRG classification system —unacceptable PDx, questionable admission PDx, age, sex, CC and MCC, and manifestation codes.
- Procedure Medicare Code Edit alerts. Improve claim accuracy by being alerted to ALL the major Medicare edits fro the new MS-DRG system pertaining to procedures; valid OR procedures, noncovered, limited coverage, nonoperating room procedures affecting DRG assignment, valid OR procedures, bilateral edits and sex edits.
- Ingenix Edge—Additional digit symbol in the tabular section and the disease and procedure indexes. Color-coded symbols alert the coder when the code is invalid without a fourth or fifth digit.
- Ingenix Edge—DRG alert symbol. Know if you’re assigning a DRG targeted by the OIG as having potential for “upcoding”—reducing the risk for audits and potential fines.
- HIV major related diagnosis code alert. Know when a diagnosis entered as a secondary diagnosis with HIV will group the case to the higher-paying DRG 974-976, helping to improve reimbursement.
- Definitions and illustrations. Verify correct code selection using clinically oriented definitions and illustrations that give the user an in-depth understanding of anatomy and disease processes.
- Manifestation code alert. Clearly identify and properly use codes that represent manifestations of underlying disease and be alerted when two codes are required, improving coding accuracy and reducing denied claims.
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