by Linda Farrington | Dec 17, 2015 | The Only Constant is Change
It’s been a busy fall/winter season and hard to believe that it’s December and the year is almost over. Although much of the east is warm right now, winter has set in in the west. We are covered with snow and it’s a winter wonderland. We didn’t even get rid of all...
by Linda Farrington | Oct 30, 2015 | Real Life Coding
In this season of Halloween, I thought I would code my personal venomous spider experience in ICD-10-CM and use some of those new external cause codes. So here’s my spider story: I was working down in Tucson, Arizona and our team decided to stay at a beautiful resort...
by Linda Farrington | Oct 23, 2015 | The Only Constant is Change
As the leaves on the trees are changing all around us and falling to the ground, I am reminded again that the only constant is change. The healthcare industry has just undergone one of the biggest changes since I can remember. And for those of us who’ve been around a...
by Linda Farrington | Jun 21, 2015 | The Only Constant is Change
As I write this, we are 102 days, 13 hours, 56 minutes and 38, 37, 36… seconds away from ICD-10. I’ve told several audiences this week that I think we should make the CMS countdown the screensaver for our providers’ computers. Because of recent proposed legislation,...
by Linda Farrington | Mar 23, 2015 | The Only Constant is Change
It’s Spring!! A time of warming weather and new beginnings. There are signs of Spring everywhere. We are starting to see green again. As I think of new beginnings in healthcare, I think about ICD-10 and whether or not it will really happen this year. We shall know...
