Healthcare providers should start preparing for the fall 2014 implementation of ICD-10 codes, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services experts advised during a webinar yesterday. ICD-10 codes will ...

Because of the ICD-10 delay, CMS has announced a partial freeze on updates to the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 codes will continue until Oct. 1, 2016. The last regular, annual updates to the code sets were ...

As providers get back into gear for the ICD-10 changes to hit in 2015, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a free online tool to help healthcare facilities determine ...

The following article is written by Michael Orseno, revenue cycle director for Regent Surgical Health. ICD-10/5010 is rapidly approaching — is your facility ready? With less than six months to go ...

On October 1, 2014, all health plans, health data clearinghouses, and health care providers that transmit health information electronically must use a new, significantly broader, coding system, called ...

ICD-10 seeks to add greater detail to how a patient's diseases and conditions are coded. A broken arm is coded in ICD-9 as "a fractured arm," whereas in ICD-10, the injury could be coded as "a ...

Just when patients and medical and non-medical staff in hospitals and health care facilities are on the verge of getting crazy from the thousands of currently existing medical codes, the 10th version ...

The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) is a classification system that was established and maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO) along with ten other ...

On March 31, Congress passed a bill to address the sustainable growth rate for physician reimbursement, which also included language to delay the ICD-10 implementation date by at least one year. After ...

The 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) is almost upon you! Chances are you've been preparing, but the magnitude of the changes coming seems overwhelming to many ...