Unless there is another delay, the United States will transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in all health care settings on October 1, 2015. This will not be a gradual transition as there will be no grace ...

At the beginning of April, President Barack Obama signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. The legislation delayed a 24 percent reduction in Medicare rates for physicians ...

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, ...

The Table shows the code changes for each of these conditions. Comparing the 2 columns of the table will give you a good overview of the types of diagnostic changes that are coming. Both the Centers ...

At the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 11, Deborah Grider, senior manager of revenue cycle at Blue and Co., discussed ICD-10 and what it means for healthcare organizations.

In a move that heralds sweeping change in how medical bills are coded, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced a proposed regulation to change the ICD-9 code sets with ICD-10 code ...

Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients and ...

Inflammatory arthritis codes increased 30-fold in the transition from the ninth to the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9 and -10), yet few were used in clinical ...

ICD-11 made something of a surprise appearance this week. Hospital executives and staff reading that the next iteration of the International Classification of Diseases system will contain a new code ...