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4th National Briefing on Winter Maintenance and Road Weather give organizations working in the severe weather and maintenance operations space an opportunity to showcase their recent efforts to advance the state of the practice through collaboration, research, technical support, and implementation.  This briefing features the Transportation Research Board Winter Maintenance Committee.This briefing series is produced in collaboration with the AASHTO Maintenance Committee, the Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group, and the Winter Weather Management Technical Service Program - SICOP.Watch the video at this link  https://youtu.be/8WP7n5MzBv0For more information Contact:Chair Anna Arvidsson at anna.arvidsson@vti.seBecome a friend of the Winter Maintenance Committee AKR40 by following this link to create a MyTRB account and register as a friend:https://www.nationalacademies.org/trb/get-involvedSICOP Talks Winter Ops is always looking for interesting topics and guests to visit with regarding winter maintenance and road weather. If you have any ideas for future episodes contact Rick Nelson at rnelson@aashto.org or our our co-producer Scott Lucas at SELucas@columbus.gov

Sheila M. Sheridan - IFMA Fellow, CFM, LEED AP O+M. Sheila retired from Harvard University where she was Director of Facilities and Services at the Kennedy School of Government. As an International Facility Management Association (IFMA )volunteer member, she has held numerous roles including the Chair.   Currently, she is a USGBC Technical Committee member. Previously she was past vice chair of the LEED Operations and Maintenance Committee. She also participated as faculty for IFMA and USGBC courses. She is a recognized global speaker concerning facilities and sustainability. She has been a visiting lecturer at universities around the world. Show Highlights How volunteer work allows you to test the limits of your abilities and learn what you are really interested in. Invite champions, naysayers, and gossipers to your team to match your project to your mission.  Tips to pave your own way  to promote the change you want to see in your profession and an environmental steward.  Sheila is a “tenacious pioneer” who shares her stories of inspiration and tips to help push sustainability forward and open new doors.  Sustainability has no borders because the world's needs are connected for a positive future.   Emerging trends and looking at how they manage buildings so we don't lose the voice of the people that work and live there. Growth in the industry only occurs when you invite people in, share information as an environmental steward.     “It's not the green building movement anymore. It's, save the planet. Everything you do, both at home, at work and in your profession can make a difference right down to picking up a piece of trash. The green building movement is exciting. It's a vehicle to get you where we need to be and there's opportunities for you to be a specialist.”  -Sheila Sheridan   Get the episode transcript here!!   Show Resource and Information Work Better. Save The Planet  LinkedIn Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!   If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes.  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast!   Copyright © 2022 GBES

Extensive changes are coming your way for hospital observation and inpatient services. And the time to prepare is now and this upcoming live edition of the long-running Talk Ten Tuesday broadcast is the place to begin to grasp the breadth and depth of these revisions from the American Medical Association.Colleen Deighan, senior consultant with 3M, will continue the second in her multi-series of reports as she discusses the two evaluation and management (E&M) categories including guideline changes for reporting these services accurately and sharing steps you will need to take for preparing your physicians and your coding staff for success.  Other segments during the live broadcast include the following:Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the ongoing Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting taking place at that hour in the CMS headquarters in Baltimore.Mental Health Report: Internationally renowned psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic reports on the nation's state of mental health.RegWatch: Stanley Nachimson, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) career professional-turned-well-known healthcare IT authority, will report on the latest regulatory news coming out of Washington, D.C.News Desk: Timothy Powell, CPA will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.Journaling John: John Zelem, MD, FACS, founder and CEO for Streamline Solutions Consulting, will continue with his journal entry.TalkBack: Erica Remer,MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.  

Is the emergency department (ED) an outpatient CDI priority for your organization? The emergency department is the main source of admissions to a hospital – and the first location patients typically receive care. What should you consider when determining how an outpatient CDI program could support quality patient care, proper payment, and complete and accurate data?   During the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, outpatient CDI expert Colleen Deighan will return with another installment in her popular series on a subject that continues to generate listener interest and questions. Deighan will also conduct a listener's survey during the weekly Internet radio broadcast.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Special Series: Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: Senior healthcare consultant Kristi Pollard, Director of Coding Quality and Education for the Haugen Consulting Group, wraps up her four-part series on the impact of coding on severe maternal morbidity with a discussion about the intersection of coding and clinical indicators. Conditions specifically in the crossfire are sepsis, acute kidney injury, and coagulation disorders. Pollard will address which data the maternal collaboratives want to track and how you can incorporate these initiatives into existing CDI programs. The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson will report on the outcome of the recent ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting.  RegWatch: Stanley Nachimson, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) career professional-turned-well-known healthcare IT authority, will report on the most recent final payment rules released by CMS on Tuesday.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

What can a medical assistant do – and not do?Medical assistants have a narrow list of tasks they can perform for patients or for a doctor in a doctor's office. It's often difficult to know what's allowed, because there are not strong laws or regulations in place regarding medical assistants.Since no one really “regulates” them, and they are frighteningly under-monitored by any sort of government agency, what rules should they follow?In the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays, Terry Fletcher, a nationally recognized professional coder, auditor, and educator, will return to the broadcast with an exclusive report on best practices for medical assistants, but also the imperative admonition: they should not be mistakenly used as nurses.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Special Series: Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: Senior healthcare consultant Kristi Pollard, Director of Coding Quality and Education for the Haugen Consulting Group, will continue her four-part series, reporting how coded data is being used by the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) to improve maternal outcomes.The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson will report on the on the outcome of the recent ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting.RegWatch: Stanley Nachimson, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) career professional-turned-well-known healthcare IT authority, will report on the latest regulatory news coming out of Washington, D.C.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $470 million to New York University to perform a national study on “tens of thousands of people, to research the long-term effects of COVID-19.”One such individual who might be included in the study will be the special guest during the next live edition of Talk-Ten-Tuesdays: Deborah Grider, longtime ICD10monitor national correspondent and senior healthcare consultant for Karen Zupko & Associates. Grider will return to the broadcast with an update on her status as a “long hauler,” having contracted the deadly coronavirus more than a year ago.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson will report on the outcome of last week's Coordination and Maintenance Committee.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.2021 E&M Update: It's about time: Nearly everyone thought that time reporting for evaluation and management (E&M) services would be eased through the American Medical Association (AMA) 2021 guidelines. Yet there are controversial areas and discrepancies in interpretation of the published guidance, according to Shannon DeConda, who will report on those issues. DeConda is the founder of the National Alliance of Medical Auditing Specialists (NAMAS) and a partner of DoctorsManagement.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.Town Hall: Your questions will be answered live during this special interactive broadcast.

NBAA recently formed the Maintenance Committee's new Sustainability Subcommittee to help aviation managers identify and implement the best ways to reduce their operation's carbon footprint. Learn how to tap the subcommittee's expertise and other NBAA resources.

NBAA recently formed the Maintenance Committee's new Sustainability Subcommittee to help aviation managers identify and implement the best ways to reduce their operation's carbon footprint. Learn how to tap the subcommittee's expertise and other NBAA resources.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS) have announced a proposal for biannual ICD-10-CM and PCS updates.The impact on business processes would be far-reaching – much of it good, and some possibly not so good, according to Susan Gatehouse, who will report this development as the lead story during the next live edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays. Gatehouse, the founder and CEO for Axea Solutions, will encourage listeners to respond during the public comment period being afforded by both agencies.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Outpatient CDI Report: Colleen Deighan, senior consultant with 3M, will continue with Part II in her three-part series on outpatient clinical documentation improvement (CDI), reporting on measures that require abstracting.Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the newly proposed codes presented during last week’s Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting. Johnson will also conduct the Talk Ten Tuesdays Listener Survey.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

To improve patient care and create transparency, Medicare mandated a pay-for-quality reporting program for hospital outpatient services in 2009. The related measures can impact hospital payment if not met, thus creating financial incentives for hospitals to report them. The measures are intended to evaluate the regularity of outpatient treatments known to provide the best results for most patients with a particular condition.  During the next three broadcasts of Talk-Ten-Tuesdays, listeners will be introduced to these measures and learn how coding and documentation integrity professionals can get involved in reporting and analyzing the data. The exclusive three-part series will include the following:Part 1: Hospital outpatient quality reporting programPart 2: Measures that require abstractingPart 3: Outcome-based measuresThe live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the newly proposed codes presented during last week’s Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting. Johnson will also conduct the Talk Ten Tuesdays Listener Survey.Mental Health Report: Residual Rage: Vaccine shortages, folks cutting in line to get vaccinated, and on-again, off-again guidance concerning opening schools, businesses, and even mask-wearing have all been major COVID-19-related issues. So it’s little wonder there’s pent-up pandemic anger and frustration. There is an ICD-10 code for irritability and anger, and Dr. H. Steven Moffic, award-winning author and internationally renowned psychiatrist, will discuss it – and how and why many of us feel today.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

Whether you work for a full-scale enterprise or a smaller healthcare facility, the importance of revenue integrity programs is gaining increased importance, especially in the light of renewed auditing activities anticipated under the Biden Administration. Beyond ensuring accurate billing and collection, revenue integrity should strengthen reimbursement performance and provide sound financial practices, according to Susan Gatehouse, founder and CEO for Axea Solutions, who will report on our lead story during the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will continue her reporting on proposed codes expected to be discussed during the Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting, which begins on Tuesday, March 9 and concludes Wednesday, March 10. Johnson will also conduct the Talk Ten Tuesdays Listener Survey.Tuesday Focus: Congress passed the "No Surprises Act" at the end of 2020, but what does that mean for providers, exactly? Nationally recognized professional coder and auditor Terry Fletcher will share what the Act requires medical providers to do when seeing an out-of-network patient under a non-government payor, and how this will impact your practice revenue and patients. This new law is set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2022, so time is of the essence to work on compliance strategy.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

Will there be an ICD-10 code for post-traumatic visual disturbance? Or for an encounter for PPD test reading and medication review? Or prolonged grief disorder?In light of COVID-19, the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) meeting will be online-only, as was the case last spring, at the outset of the pandemic. This year, the two-day meeting begins next Tuesday, March 9, continuing through March 10, bringing together representatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), various medical societies, medical device vendors, and the general public.Senior healthcare consultant Laurie Johnson will have an exclusive preview of Day 1 during the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays. Joining her will be nationally prominent psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic, MD, who will report on prolonged grief: an ICD-10-CM diagnostic topic expected to be discussed during the Coordination and Maintenance meeting, and a marker of America’s grim milestone of more than 500,000 souls lost to the deadly coronavirus.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:RegWatch: Stanley Nachimson, former CMS career professional-turned-well-known healthcare IT authority, will report on the latest regulatory news coming out of Washington.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on coding the consequences of COVID-19 vaccination

Welcome to the Paint The Medical Picture Podcast, a Nexsen Pruet, LLC series, hosted by Sonal Patel, CPMA, CPC, CMC, ICD-10-CM. Episode 3 provides Newsworthy details of the ICD-10-CM coding and reporting guidelines for Covid-19, and more, for the effective date of October 1, 2020 for these 490 new diagnosis codes, 47 revised codes and 58 invalidated codes within the new 2021 ICD-10-CM Manual. The recent virtual Maintenance Committee Meeting outcomes rounds out this week's Newsworthy. Trusty Tip touches on my best practice bonus points for properly documenting time-based codes. Spark brings the small details into larger focus with inspiration from Vincent Van Gogh. Go ahead and listen, subscribe, rate and review! Now on: Anchor: http://anchor.fm/sonal-patel5 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6hcJAHHrqNLo9UmKtqRP3X Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/paint-the-medical-picture-podcast/id1530442177 Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/paint-the-medical-picture-podcast Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/tcwfkshx Radio Public: https://radiopublic.com/paint-the-medical-picture-podcast-WRZvAw If you would like to reach out for Sonal's consulting services, please contact her directly at: sonalpatel@nexsenpruet.com Find Sonal at Nexsen Pruet at: https://www.nexsenpruet.com/professionals/sonal-patel Find Sonal's Services at: https://www.nexsenpruet.com/about-us/npcoding360 Find Sonal on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/in/sonapate Find Nexsen Pruet Healthcare on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/nexsen-pruet-health-care/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sonal-patel5/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sonal-patel5/support

Battle lines in a budding court battle could be drawn soon.A federal appeals court has reversed the decision of a lower court and upheld the action by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to pay formerly grandfathered off-campus outpatient departments run by hospitals at the same, lower rate of physician clinics.Experts believe that could mean a potential loss of $800 million to these already struggling hospitals, the finances of which have been especially hit hard during the COVD-19 pandemic. There is clearly a legal battle ahead. Reporting our lead story during the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be nationally recognized professional coder and auditor Terry Fletcher.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Tuesday Focus: Shannon DeConda, founder of the National Alliance of Medical Auditing Specialists and a partner of DoctorsManagement, will continue her series for ICD10monitor and Talk Ten Tuesdays in which she delves into the massive changes in the new American Medical Association (AMA) evaluation and management (E&M) documentation guidelines for 2021: changes that become effective Jan. 1, 2021.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk-Ten-Tuesdays News Desk.The Coding Report: Winners and losers. Which proposed ICD-10 codes will become adopted, and which ones will fail? Linda Holtzman, founder of Clarity Coding and an avid follower of the CMS Coordination and Maintenance Committee, will handicap last week’s meeting.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on another thought-provoking topic that has captured her attention.

COVID-19 is disrupting the stability of food, shelter, and sleep. Stress levels are unthinkable. The continuing pandemic, along with unemployment, racial injustice, and social isolation, is raising anxiety and depression to high levels as well. Moreover, it’s been reported that ongoing stress can decrease the body’s lymphocyte levels, making infection more likely. This cycle is evident among COVID patients.Reporting on this untenable situation during the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be Sheryl Markowitz, senior vice president of clinical operations at Healthfirst of New York City, one of the largest Medicare and Medicaid providers in the greater metro area of the Big Apple. Ms. Markowitz will be reporting on how Healthfirst is responding to a significant increase in calls from members experiencing anxiety and depression by increasing outreach and availability of help. The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Tuesday Focus: Vaccinating Kids: September is National Immunization Awareness Month, and recent action by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has green-lighted children being vaccinated by state-licensed pharmacists – a move that has generated pushback, first from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and now, the American Medical Association (AMA) as well. Nationally recognized professional coder and auditor Terry Fletcher will have an update on this budding controversy.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson will report on last week’s two-day meeting of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Coordination and Maintenance Committee.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on another thought-provoking topic that has captured her attention.

Dr. Jeff Stark, MD, Head of U.S. Medical Immunology at UCB, and a rheumatologist, discusses the recent update by the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (a subcommittee of the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) that created a code specific to non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-AxSpA), a chronic inflammatory condition that mainly affects the spine and sacroiliac joint. The condition will now be formally indexed to ICD-10 sub-category M46.8 and effective Oct 1, 2020.

The Trump Administration has grand plans to make healthcare prices more transparent, hoping a little bit of light will help lower the high costs of U.S. healthcare.In new regulations, the administration is requiring hospitals to disclose, for the first time, the prices they negotiated with health insurers for a wide range of services, as well as the prices they charge patients who are paying with their own money.But is it going to make any difference? We ask nationally-recognized professional physician coder and auditor Terry Fletcher to check with some health policy experts for their opinions about the new price transparency regimes. Terry gives you the best and worst-case scenarios, as well as the more realistic predictions, as this new rule is enforced during 2020. The podcast also features other segments:Tuesday Focus: Is it extravasation or infiltration? Knowing the difference is important for coders – and, actually, all healthcare professionals. Susan Gatehouse, founder and CEO of Axea Solutions, explains why this really matters.The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson has an update on the deadly coronavirus that continues to dominate international as well as domestic news headlines. She also reports on the upcoming Coordination and Maintenance Committee scheduled for March 17 and 18 at the headquarters of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).News Desk: Grant Huang, CPMA, CPC, a consultant for DoctorsManagement, anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, reports on another thought-provoking topic that has captured her attention.

As the clinical documentation integrity (CDI) industry continues to grow beyond the traditional inpatient setting, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is working to provide best-practice resources to provider stakeholders from across the continuum of care. Sharing an update on AHIMA’s advocacy during this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be Tammy Combs, the Association’s director of HIM practice excellence.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:The ICD-10 Coding Report: Nationally recognized coding authority Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant at Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, reports on the proceedings taking place during the first day of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting, which was scheduled to get underway Tuesday morning at CMS headquarters in Baltimore.News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.SDoH Update: Returning to the Talk Ten Tuesdays broadcast to report on the developing story of social determinants of health (SDoH) will be nationally recognized SDoH authority, author, and educator Ellen Fink-Samnick, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CCM, CRP, the founder of EFS Supervision Strategies, LLC.TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, reports on a current healthcare issue that has caught her attention during her popular TalkBack segment.

In this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays Chuck Buck and Holly Louie, RN welcome special guest Dr. Emmel Golden, a physician associate and medicine lead for Enjoin. Dr. Golden, board-certified in internal medicine and pulmonary disease, will report on, among other topics, those associated with major disease category 18, including the confusing aspects of coding systemic inflammatory response syndrome, or SIRS. Other segments to be featured on the broadcast include: News Desk: Knicole Emanuel, Esq, anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk and reports on Medicare waivers in times of natural disasters. Knicole is a partner at Potomac Law Group, PLLC. Coding Changes: The American Medical Association (AMA) released its 2019 code changes last week. Continuing her reporting on this developing story is senior healthcare consultant Deborah Grider with Karen Zupko and Associates. Tuesday Focus: Sharon Easterling will report on the impact of Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas, especially among area hospitals. Sharon Easterling is the CEO of Recovery Analytics, LLC in Charlotte, N.C. Easterling will discuss best practices for hospitals confronting natural disasters. RegWatch: Leading healthcare technology consultant Stanley Nachimson returns with his popular segment, RegWatch, through which he reports on the latest regulatory changes coming out of Washington, D.C. Coding Report: Continuing her reporting on last week’s ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting will be Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant for Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC and an ICD10monitor contributor. Talk Ten Tuesdays: More than just talk™

The next big milestone for ICD-10 is the 2018 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting in Baltimore. The two-day meeting covered the latest requests for diagnosis and procedure codes. Monitoring and reporting on the meeting during this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant for Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC and an ICD10monitor contributor. Other segments to be featured on the broadcast include: News Desk: Larry Field, DO, anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk and reports on the newly released Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction. Dr. Field is the treasurer of the American College of Physician Advisors. Tuesday Focus: The American Medical Association has released its 2019 code changes. Reporting on this developing story is senior healthcare consultant Deborah Grider. Mental Health Report: Catherine Harrison-Restelli, MD, medical director for hospital services at Sheppard Pratt Health System, reports on Social Determinants of Health (SdoH), especially adverse childhood events and their impact on physical and mental health. Coding Report: Gloryanne Bryant reports on steps facilities should take to strengthen their coding and compliance programs, especially in the wake of the alleged upcoding at Providence St. Joseph health system.

Looking to upgrade the interior of your aircraft? The process can take months of planning before the work even begins, said Jon Haag, CAM, former chair of NBAA's Maintenance Committee. “Communication is huge and it starts the day that the principal says, ‘You know, I'd like to update the airplane',” he added. Haag also recommended making sure there's no “gray areas” in the work order, to minimize mistakes.

Looking to upgrade the interior of your aircraft? The process can take months of planning before the work even begins, said Jon Haag, CAM, former chair of NBAA’s Maintenance Committee. “Communication is huge and it starts the day that the principal says, ‘You know, I’d like to update the airplane’,” he added. Haag also recommended making sure there’s no “gray areas” in the work order, to minimize mistakes.

Maligned and misunderstood, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is under assault, as industry experts are urging officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider repealing the program. Yet March 31 was when eligible clinicians were to submit their quality data by for the value-based reimbursement program. Delivering an update on MIPS during this episode is nationally recognized revenue cycle authority Lyman Sornberger, chief strategy officer for Capio Partners. Other segments featured in this episode include: News Desk: Larry Field, DO, anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk and presents the very latest healthcare news. Field is the treasurer of the American College of Physician Advisors. Coding Report: Senior healthcare coding educator and consultant Laurie Johnson reports on the ICD-10 code proposals put forth during the recent Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting. RegWatch: Leading healthcare technology consultant Stanley Nachimson returns with his popular segment, RegWatch, through which he reports on the latest regulatory changes coming out of Washington, D.C. Type 2 Myocardial Infarctions: Dr. Erica Remer foregoes her usual TalkBack segment to help try resolve the latest confusion behind elevated troponins and Type 2 MI. Talk Ten Tuesdays. More than just talk.™

Medicare beneficiaries will soon be receiving from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) new identification cards—cards that will use a unique and what CMS describes as a "randomly-assigned number" called a Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI). The new number replaces the Social Security-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN). The new cards, scheduled to be mailed next month, are designed to help combat identity theft and fraud. Reporting our lead story is author, educator,d and consultant Duane Abbey, PhD, president of Abbey and Abbey Consultants, Inc.Other segments featured in this episode include:News Desk: Lorraine Martinez returns to report on how patients and hospitals are coping since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico six months ago. Dateline Washington: Talk Ten Tuesdays legislative analyst Rhonda Taller reports the latest news coming out of Washington, D.C. Rhonda is a member of the HIMSS professional development committee. Coding Report: Senior healthcare coding educator and consultant Laurie Johnson continues her reporting on the outcome of the recent ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee. Billing Report: Holly Louie, past president of the Healthcare Business and Management Association (HBMA) and compliance officer for Practice Management Inc., a multi-specialty billing company in Boise, Idaho, describes her frustrations in dealing with CMS and the Medicare Administrative Contractors on their contrary directives. TalkBack: Co-host Dr. Erica Remer explains why, in her opinion, coders are the last line of defense for making the right DRG choice. Talk Ten Tuesdays. More than just talk.™

The federal ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) is scheduled to meet Tuesday and Wednesday, March 6 and 7, to discuss proposals for diagnosis code topics, with the conversation to be led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Join Chuck Buck and Erica Remer, MD during this episode, as coding educator and consultant Laurie Johnson reports on the ongoing deliberations during the C&M meeting, which will take place at the headquarters of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore. Johnson is a senior consultant for Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC.Other segments featured in this episode include:CDI Report: Terrance Govender, MD, reports on three key initiatives for improving physician education for clinical documentation improvement (CDI). Dr. Govender is currently the vice president of medical affairs for ClinIntell, Inc. Live from HIMSS: HIMSS18, which begins Sunday in Las Vegas, will continue through the next week. And Tim McMullen, executive director of the Healthcare Administrative Technology Association, will have a live report from the event, considered by many to be the largest annual healthcare conference in North America. Physical Health Report: LeAnn Thieman, former nurse and nationally acclaimed author who co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul, makes her debut appearance on Talk Ten Tuesdays and offers listeners important tips to stay healthy. Thieman is the founder and president of SelfCare for Healthcare. Talk Ten Tuesdays. More than just talk.™

This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Andrew Streifel. Andrew J. Streifel is a Hospital Environment Specialist with the Department of Environmental Health & Safety at the University of Minnesota. Whenever there is a high profile hospital acquired infection one of the first names that comes to mind is Andy Streifel. Mr. Streifel has been involved in the investigation of over 80 clusters of infection related to hospital air quality. He has served as a consultant in over 400 hospitals worldwide on a variety of indoor air quality issues, water microbial contamination and has investigated clusters of bacterial infections due to unsanitary clinical practice. His current research interests involve energy management impact on infection prevention and validation of the air and water safety in healthcare facilities. Andy is a registered Environmental Health Specialist in Minnesota. He currently serves as an invited nonvoting member on the Maintenance Committee for the SSPC 170: ASHRAE Standard for Ventilation of Health Care Facilities 2008 - present. Mr. Streifel is also serving on the revision committee for the 2014 edition of the FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities. He has served on this committee since 1994 and has participated in the development of the 1996, 2001, and 2006, 2010, 2014 & 2018 editions. In addition Mr. Streifel has served on the Special Project committee that authored the HVAC Design Manual for Hospitals and Clinics. He was an author on ASHRAE published articles on Ventilation for the Protection of Immune Compromised Patients-1988, Construction Impact on Indoor Air Quality-1995 and Air Leakage Analysis of Special Ventilation Hospital Rooms-2008. Mr. Streifel has assisted University of Minnesota Institute of Technology & School of Public Health as technical advisor on filtration, patient room airflow studies and particle management projects. He also serves on the National Air Duct Cleaners Association Standards Committee. In addition, he is an author in over 50 articles, published in the academic and professional journals, related to ventilation and water quality in health care.

This week on IAQ Radio we welcome Andrew Streifel. Andrew J. Streifel is a Hospital Environment Specialist with the Department of Environmental Health & Safety at the University of Minnesota. Whenever there is a high profile hospital acquired infection one of the first names that comes to mind is Andy Streifel. Mr. Streifel has been involved in the investigation of over 80 clusters of infection related to hospital air quality. He has served as a consultant in over 400 hospitals worldwide on a variety of indoor air quality issues, water microbial contamination and has investigated clusters of bacterial infections due to unsanitary clinical practice. His current research interests involve energy management impact on infection prevention and validation of the air and water safety in healthcare facilities. Andy is a registered Environmental Health Specialist in Minnesota. He currently serves as an invited nonvoting member on the Maintenance Committee for the SSPC 170: ASHRAE Standard for Ventilation of Health Care Facilities 2008 - present. Mr. Streifel is also serving on the revision committee for the 2014 edition of the FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities. He has served on this committee since 1994 and has participated in the development of the 1996, 2001, and 2006, 2010, 2014 & 2018 editions. In addition Mr. Streifel has served on the Special Project committee that authored the HVAC Design Manual for Hospitals and Clinics. He was an author on ASHRAE published articles on Ventilation for the Protection of Immune Compromised Patients-1988, Construction Impact on Indoor Air Quality-1995 and Air Leakage Analysis of Special Ventilation Hospital Rooms-2008. Mr. Streifel has assisted University of Minnesota Institute of Technology & School of Public Health as technical advisor on filtration, patient room airflow studies and particle management projects. He also serves on the National Air Duct Cleaners Association Standards Committee. In addition, he is an author in over 50 articles, published in the academic and professional journals, related to ventilation and water quality in health care.

With special guest Sandra Routhier, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, VP of Revenue Integrity for CloudMed Solutions, and co-host Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, CDI Education Director for ACDIS and BLR Healthcare in Middleton.  To view the article "For First Time, Under Half of Physicians Own Their Practices" as covered on In the News, please click here. Following are some recommended resources for further education and study, as recommended by Routhier: CMS DRG Definitions Manual (Version 34): https://www.cms.gov/ICD10Manual/version34-fullcode-cms/fullcode_cms/P0001.html CMS ICD-10: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/index.html   ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance Committee: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/meetings.html and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd9cm_maintenance.htm