When it comes to ICD-10 and ICD-11, there are generally two camps. There are those that believe ICD-10 is a necessary coding step to take, and all hospitals and providers should make the steady ...

“If [hospitals] don’t have their major payers lined up and the payers don’t understand how the hospitals are going to code using ICD-10, that becomes a recipe for miscommunication,” he says.

Peter Muir explains how ICD-10 and meaningful use are backward, timing-wise, and how ICD-10 will result in a loss on investment.

Post misleads on medical codes Medical experts told USA TODAY the post exaggerates the use of ICD-10 medical codes by health care professionals and other entities.

The new code set will allow clinical IT systems to record far more specific and rich diagnostic information than ICD-9 codes, as it contains more than 155,000 codes, while ICD-9 contains only 17,000.

How, you ask? Well, the FY 2023 ICD-10 updates are now in effect. Therapists and the interdisciplinary team should take note of the added specificity we have long awaited to coding for dementia.

All HIPAA-covered entities, such as physicians, facilities and health insurers, are required to use ICD-10-CM codes for services performed on Oct. 1, 2015 or later. You have only weeks to make ...

While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a year's grace period this summer when it comes to claims coded with ICD-10, not all large commercial payers are following suit.

Lack of transportation, for example, does not have its own code. In this video, Kuwahara discusses her research on unmet social needs and how ICD-10 Z codes can help address them.

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 ...