Hospitals, doctors and insurers are bracing for a radical and possibly very expensive change to the way they bill. Beginning in October 2014, the federal government will require everyone convert…
Despite the continued objections of some healthcare industry groups, all indications are that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services intends to hold steady with its Oct. 1, 2014, ICD-10…
What ICD-10 topics were of interest to health information professionals in 2013? We looked at the numbers and compiled your favorites together in this year's top 10 for ICD-10 list.…
It had to happen. Oct 1, 2014 was going to be just too much for providers of all sizes and levels of IT savvy. And CMS has been under public…
Because there’s only one ICD-9 code for atrial fibrillation and it’s not a complication or comorbidity (CC), coders generally take it at face value. That will change when ICD-10 takes…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may be open to conducting ICD-10 end-to-end testing with physician offices after recent blunders with its Healthcare.gov site, according to a stakeholder…
Trade associations and others have fought the ICD-10 Oct. 1 deadline next year, mainly because of the difficulty, and some industry observers have questioned whether CMS can also meet that…