• New Feature! Ingenix Exclusive. 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
• Ingenix Edge—Inpatient services. Severity-adjusted DRG alerts and resources. Symbols identify CC and MCC conditions, listing of excluded PDx for each CC and MCC right with the code, updated Dx/MDC/DRG list, DRG mapping table, and all major Medicare code edits—each feature is designed to help you navigate through the MS-DRG system.
• Ingenix Edge —Inpatient services. Present-on-admission indicator tutorial with source documentation table. New resource provides additional explanation and examples to simplify POA and official guidelines regarding use of information in the medical record.
• Ingenix Edge—Home health care services. Expanded clinical dimension categories of the HH PPS. Quickly identify the diagnoses that group to the expanded case mix groups.
• Ingenix Edge—Skilled nursing care services. RUG III case mix group diagnoses and procedures. Alerts and resources to identify RUG III special care diagnoses and procedure codes, clinically complex diagnoses and procedures, rehabilitation procedure codes and extensive service procedure codes that qualify a SNF patient for assignment to a particular clinical category.
• Ingenix Edge—Hospice care services. Hospice noncancer Dx codes for Medicare. alerts and resources identify the code and criteria that may qualify a noncancer patient for hospice care before submitting a claim.
• Ingenix Edge—Additional digit requirement. Symbols in the index and the tabular identify codes as invalid without a fourth or fifth digit.
• Ingenix Edge—Exclusive color-coding identifies coding rules such as “manifestation coding” when two codes are required for reporting.
• Ingenix Edge—Valid three-digit code list. Know whether a three-digit code is valid while reviewing claims.
• Ingenix Edge—AHA’s Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM References. Official ICD-9-CM coding advice all providers must follow.
• Ingenix Edge—10 Steps to Correct Coding Tutorial. Step-by-step instruction to improve coding audit accuracy.
• V code designated use table. Quickly identify when V codes can be used only as a primary or only as an additional diagnosis.
• Definitions and illustrations. These clinically oriented features facilitate coding reviews.
• A summary of the code changes. Stay current with the latest code changes.