Trump Administration Halts External Health Agency Communications Just Days Into New Term

The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, including health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, according to reports by CNN and the Washington Post. These orders were conveyed on Jan. 21 to staff at agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services […]

ICD-10 Guidance Gives Latitude to Home Health, Other Coders

Home health care agencies and other providers can make judgment calls in when to use certain ICD-10 codes that in most circumstances are not meant to appear together, according to interim guidance issued Monday by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). At issue is the “Excludes1” note, which indicates when two conditions cannot be […]