International Code Council

1. Description and Resolution of the Event The October 6th Philadelphia City Council meeting afforded me the long awaited opportunity to see the inside of one of my favorite architectural landmarks. As a kid growing up not far from the city, I’d occasionally pass it during a family or school outing. Although still young, I was mesmerized and intrigued by its size and magnificent architectural details. For this reason, and in defiance of friend’s suggestion that I should just stay at home and…

The temperature outside was 73 degrees, but fuses were blowing at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Continuing business from October’s meeting, councilmember Dale Reynolds requested that a special meeting be held in the interest of homelessness in the city. Having that meeting in the Multi-purpose Room with department heads from city agencies, two council members met on Wednesday to put their heads together to implement a way, to solve the ever growing problem. “Homeless people, whether they…

data. My theoretical framework to analyze this data is Grounded Theory, which utilizes inductive sorting, and that allows the researcher to use data itself to make ideas theories (Galman, 2013). In order to reach most meaningful material, I will code each transcript by hand on the Microsoft Word`s Comment feature, which is under the Review tap. I will look at find data chunks in each transcript, which Saldana (2013) defined this process as a First Cycle coding, which has numerous approaches,…

A medical billing and coding career can be a desirable career path for many people interested in the healthcare industry. Medical coders play a key role in the health care billing process, assigning the codes that turn treatments into bills. Medical billing and coding specialists are vital to keeping costs down, reducing medical mistakes and generally ensuring there’s a free flow of information about patients’ medical histories. The health care industry is constantly striving to become more…

As we look at the World Health Organization that produces and published the International Classification of Diseases system. In 1979 the United States made some modifications to the classification system and implemented the use of ICD-9-CM coding style. Since then healthcare around the world has rapidly evolved and needed to collect more information regarding different diseases and conditions that would affect the world’s population and which turn to a high priority. Due to the increase volume…

Procedure to Procedure edit 50010/0213T indicated Misuse of column two codes with column one code meaning 50010 in column 1 is the code that should be bill and is payable. 0213T located in column 2 of the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Procedure-to-Procedure (PTP) code table. The main reason beyond the implementation of the NCCI is to prevent improper payment in other words to prevent physicians, non-physician practitioners, and Ambulatory Surgery Centers from billing twice for one…

they serve? ICD 10 stands for International Classification of Disease, Tenth Edition. It is the global coding system that all healthcare systems use, even internationally. ICD was formed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1989. It was made to replace ICD 9, which was formed and implemented in 1989 and had become very outdated. Problems with ICD 9 included structure limits with the number of digits used in a code, it also was hard to implement a new code into an already existing…

examine types of clinical terminology, classification, and a code system. My goal is to compare and contrast their general characteristics, purpose, use, content, and structure. Clinical terminology will be examined in the paragraph below. The clinical terminology examined will be SNOMED CT. SNOMED CT provides codes for clinical documentation and reporting. There is no book for SNOMED CT codes. Software applications are used to implement the codes using identifiers assigned to a clinical term…

medical coding systems that medical practices rely on to be financially stable? Firstly, there are many, many more codes. ICD-9 contains approximately 13,000 codes, a daunting number to deal with already. ICD-10 will contain a total of approximately 68,000 available codes. ICD-9 coders and ICD-9 billers are professionally trained and certified to translate medical records into 13,000 codes. The complexity…

The demand for Medical Coders is expected to increase by 22% between 2012 and 2022 primarily due to the number of the population aging. More medical services will be required as these aging individuals will develop conditions and diseases (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Becoming a successful medical coder takes time and dedication if you have little or no experience in the healthcare field. Medical coders play an important role in the healthcare industry as timely reimbursement is based on the…