Investigation into the top 10 procedure codes, based on total allowed amount, experienced by the auto casualty insurance marketplace provides valuable insight for claims organizations, investigators and legislators. With thousands…
Communication was the theme at the Code It Right conference last week as medical coders prepare for a massive transition to a new medical coding system known as ICD-10. “I…
U.S. lawmakers are making their third attempt in just over a month to tweak ICD-10 with new legislation. This time around, rather than attempting to kill or delay ICD-10 altogether,…
There's more to communicating with healthcare payers than handing them a medical claim and saying, "Pay me." Creating better relationships with your payers before Oct. 1, in fact, enables providers…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has just released a fact sheet on preparing for ICD-10. This latest message offers suggestions for providers whose information systems may not be…
We might be entering into the hot months of summer, but before you know it it’ll be fall, and with it will come the long anticipated transition to ICD-10. However,…
Suppose, in a comical sequence of indignities, you are pecked by a goose, bitten by a crocodile, crushed by a human stampede at an opera house, injured in a fall…
With about six months to go before the ICD-10 deadline, many medical practices are wondering if they can get it done in time. They may think they need a hero,…
Concerns from a coalition of medical and professional organizations that CMS' lack of contingency plans for the ICD-10 transition are understandable but unfounded, according to the American Health Information Management…
Anecdotal evidence suggests the coding shift might chase physicians into retirement.
The U.S. implementation of the ICD-10 diagnosis coding system has been delayed several times, but members of a House subcommittee seemed to be leaning Wednesday toward making sure the current Oct. 1 deadline sticks.
Changes in how medical diagnoses are coded under the latest international disease classification system – better known as the ICD-10 codes – may complicate the assessment of hospital safety, say…
A year ahead of the Oct. 1, 2015, compliance deadline for implementing the ICD-10 code set, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced three weeks that will…
An Athens, Ga.-based health IT executive turned consultant has launched a free ICD-10 resource for rural and critical access hospitals. Tyler Wallace, who took the leap from the corporate payroll…
The HIMSS ICD-10 Task Force has updated two tools and repackaged them on the organization's ICD-10 PlayBook as the ICD-10 Financial Tool Suite to help providers focus their programs and…
WHO WAS BEHIND ICD-10 DELAY? All indicators point to House Speaker John Boehner’s office as the source of statutory language that delayed the move to the complex ICD-10 coding system…