AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1989 Second Quarter
Data Quality
by Meryl Bloomrosen Director, Health Information Services Aspen Systems Corporation The important role of medical record coding in financial payment to health care providers cannot be disputed. Federal regulations, such as the implementation of the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) in 1983, requiring hospitals to code using ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes, and continuing with the Catastrophic Coverage Act in 1988, requiring physicians to use ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes in order to receive reimbursement, are clear signals that coded data are vital to the fiscal solvency of providers. Such regulations have placed increasing pressures and responsibilities on the medical record...
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