On July 27, in response to questions from healthcare providers, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and American Medical Association (AMA) released clarifications on their ICD-10 guidance for…
Thomas Selva, MD, is chief medical information officer at the University of Missouri Healthcare. Last week we spoke about the last-minute attempt by the American Medical Association to once again…
While Tuesday's election was important for many reasons, none of them have a direct impact on the ICD-10 debate.
As patients, we don't have the thousands of dollars it costs to tap into the extensive database information required for the entire body of CPT codes. But the AMA does offer us an easy way to look up one code at a time, for free.
The AAFP recently joined several dozen physician and other health care professional organizations, including the AMA, the American College of Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association, in asking CMS to…
Providers, suppliers, billing companies and clearinghouses can submit ICD-10 acknowledgement test claims anytime up to the new planned October 1, 2015 ICD-10 implementation date. However, the Centers for Medicare and…
A delay in requiring all providers of medical care to use a new health-records and billing system to describe treatments is giving small medical offices major headaches. Billing is a…
The nation's largest doctors' group said Monday it won't try to block Medicare's release of billing records for 880,000 physicians, although it continues to oppose the government's recent decision to…
It's understandable if healthcare providers consider ICD-10 implementation a lost cause. The latest delay shows how easy it is to derail a major healthcare policy initiative. So why bother? Terrance…
Believe it or not, you do not need to know or care about how many ICD-10 codes there are. I know this goes against the grain. It is almost the…
Everyone realizes that coders and clinical staff have to be trained on the new ICD-10 code set, but not everyone understands just what this entails. Don't make the mistake of…
The new ICD-10 acupuncture insurance billing diagnosis codes are mandatory beginning October 2014. Here is a list of easy ICD-10 codes for insurance billing and reimbursement. This system is very…
Providers, payers and claims clearinghouses can look for no relief from the looming, Oct. 1 compliance deadline for the nationwide conversion to the ICD-10 family of diagnostic and procedural codes,…
Armed with a new study showing that anticipated ICD-10 compliance costs for physicians may have tripled since a similar study in 2008, the American Medical Association is asking the federal…
ICD-10 implementation costs for physician practices are expected to be significantly more costly than previously estimated, according to an updated cost analysis report from the AMA (American Medical Association). The updated…
The costs to medical practices for implementing the International Classification of Diseases-10th Revision (ICD-10) coding system have been grossly underestimated, according to a recent study by Nachimson Advisors for the…