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 ...

In a July 31 webinar titled, “ICD-10: Are You Prepared?”, Kevin McDonald, senior vice president of ASC billing services for SourceMedical, spoke with a panel of industry professionals on how ASCs can ...

In today’s healthcare landscape, medical practices work hard to deliver excellent patient care while also ensuring smooth ...

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 ...

Diagnosis and treatment planning are arguably the centerpiece of dental practice. Quantifying and recording a patient's complete set of dental and medical diagnoses requires the use of a common coding ...

In an interview, the section chief of hepatology at Rush University Medical Center discussed why the addition of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification ...

I just read a blog by Dr. Dayle Jones that could have an important influence in the endgame effort to save DSM 5 from itself. See it at http://my.counseling.org/2011 ...

Within a Washington DC-area consultancy, employees are gathering early in what the agency has demarcated as the war room. Some hospitals, meanwhile, have established a command center for triage, while ...

Use lifestyle interventions to show no signs of type 2 diabetes for at least three months? There’s a code for that: E11.A.