How lenient are major health insurers willing to be when it comes to accepting providers' ICD-10 claims? Humana and UnitedHealthcare are giving latitude in the specificity of the new codes,…
Unless you've been living in a cave, you are probably aware that come Oct. 1, 2015, the old ICD-9 coding system will be completely replaced with a "newer version": ICD-10.…
In just a few short weeks, the landmark ICD-10 transition that has been anticipated and delayed countless times will arrive on Oct. 1, 2015. With it comes the pressure to…
Imagine that a federal agency called the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, responsible for insuring about one-third of the nation, tried to build a national health insurance exchange and…
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…
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…
Information regarding the ICD-10 delay continues to trickle out of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CMS has announced that the partial code freeze for ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 will…
For the last so many decades, we’ve been using ICD-9. ICD-9, which stands for International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition is the system of codes used to classify every disease…
Medical coders or medical coding specialists go through detailed information about patient injuries, diseases and procedures from medical records and documents provided by doctors and other healthcare providers. They then…
Doctors in Colorado and across the country are facing a facing a major shift in how they bill for treatments — a shift that threatens to slow their ability to…
Despite the rapidly approaching conversion date, recent surveys have shown many providers still have a lot of ground to cover before they're prepared to take on ICD-10. A study released…
In a recent policy reversal the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it would offer ICD-10 end-to-end testing this summer. But, testing required for a successful switch is not…
Medical Coding is one of the fastest growing jobs in the United States. Currently only 49% of healthcare employers reported being adequately staffed with medical coders. The most common reason…
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,…
Theodore Roosevelt once said: “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain [and] difficulty.” While the former president’s outlook is a bit extreme,…
From patient accounting systems to sticky notes and "cheat sheets" posted in exam rooms, ICD-9 codes permeate the health care environment, translating the information in medical records to numbers on…