CMS has identified potential claims processing issues that span the ICD-10 implementation date, or when ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes may both apply, according to a Medicare Learning Network Matters report ...

After three delays and much industry opposition, the United States’ healthcare industry transitioned Oct. 1 to ICD-10, catching up with the latest version of the international classification of ...

Daniel Essin has trouble seeing how useful ICD-10 codes would be to his practice. After trolling through all the granularity, he concludes, "From a clinical perspective, it doesn't look like ICD-10 ...

Unless there is another delay, the United States will transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in all health care settings on October 1, 2015. This will not be a gradual transition as there will be no grace ...

National Medical Billing Services Senior Vice President, Coding Angela Talton, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPC-H, discussed how ambulatory surgery centers can prepare for the transition to ICD-10 in a ...

With the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, definitely being implemented on October 1, 2015, CMS just completed the first week of end-to-end testing of the new coding. With the ...

Starting Oct. 1, the day ICD-10 goes into effect, CMS’ fraud prevention system will use data from the new code set to identify patterns that could indicate fraud, according to a Healthcare Finance ...

The enigmatic duration of HHS’ intended delay of ICD-10 is giving payers and providers hope for a little breathing room when it comes to training coders – but it simultaneously creates a need to ...

No two patients are the same. Furthermore, therapists know well that no two patients with dementia are ever the same. We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Despite spending more money on health care than any other nation, Americans continue to experience ...

Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients and ...