Ready or not, ICD-10 is coming. On Oct. 1, 2015, the healthcare industry will — barring any unforeseen circumstances — transition to using ICD-10 codes for billing and services. With the entire ...

The switch from coding set ICD-9 to ICD-10 has the potential to improve hospitals’ revenue cycle efficiency, coding accuracy and ability to track data, but only if done right. Hospitals need to ...

The letter D is a seventh character extender for diagnosis codes from Chapter 19, "Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes." The definition is found in its entirety at the ...

Ongoing education and assessment are critical to success for healthcare systems transitioning to the new code set, according to early adopters at the American Health Information Management Association ...

ICD-10, set to take effect Oct. 1, will impact both clinical and administrative staff. Here are four tips for training both sets of staff, according to CMS.

The Code It Right conference held last week provided attendees tips on how to transition to the new coding system, according to The Gazette. 1. Communication amongst team members is crucial in the ...

For the last couple weeks I’ve been on a search for software based coding tools that are used for coding ICD-10 diagnosis codes for the purpose of claims submission. I’m looking for something better ...

The fiscal year 2021 update to the ICD-10-CM code set introduced new codes to describe cytokine release syndrome (CRS), also known as a cytokine storm. A version of this article was first published ...

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 ...

Physicians know the change to ICD-10 coding on Oct. 1 is going to radically change how they input diagnostic and billing codes. That's mostly due to the number of codes swelling by thousands compared ...

asthma icd-10 codes The new ICD-10 coding system may seem inappropriate for some disease models, but asthma care may benefit from the required changes. The new ICD-10 codes are fully implemented, and ...

Like its predecessor ICD-9, ICD-10 has codes for family history or personal history of certain conditions. In the index, the history codes are divided into family history and personal history. The ...