WASHINGTON – Complex rehab technology (CRT) stakeholders were pleasantly surprised when CMS recently removed the ICD-10 ...

If you think you can wait until 2013 to evaluate your system processes and work protocols for the ICD-10 implementation, think again! The ICD-10 implementation doesn’t mean you simply need to purchase ...

The proposed switch from ICD-9 codes sets to International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification will be a huge information technology challenge for the U.S. healthcare ...

Nobody needs to go to medical school to know that people have two ears. However, if physicians treat a patient with suppurative, or pus-discharging, otitis media, they don't have to specify left ear, ...

At the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 11, Fletcher Lance, vice president and national healthcare lead at North Highland, and Cody Schmits, manager at North Highland, ...

SALT LAKE CITY – As if upgrading the nation’s ICD-9 code set for diseases and treatment to ICD-10, with its many thousands more codes, were not enough of a challenge for health information managers at ...

Fifteen years after the Y2K panic, the healthcare industry is once again closely watching the calendar. Not since Jan. 1, 2000, have so many industry professionals had their eyes on a deadline as they ...

R87610 Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance on cytologic smear of cervix (ASC-US) R87611 Atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic ...

But here’s the thing: ICD-10 contains 69,823 diagnosis codes. In other words, MedData missed a few. C’mon, guys. Finish the job! UPDATE, Oct. 21: MedData Marketing Manager Sean Biehle informs us that ...

ICD-10 — the 10th version of the World Health Organization’s medical classification system — will be used to code healthcare claims in the U.S. beginning Oct. 1, 2015. Here are 15 things to know about ...

The 70,000 diagnostic codes known as ICD-10 made their long and nervously awaited debut in medical practices today. Claims for any service performed on October 1 and beyond must bear one or more of ...