The US has been one of the first countries to adapt ICD 9 codes for medical billing and claims. With the industry focused on healthcare reform, changes in supporting functions are inevitable. The ICD ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feeling better about ICD-10? Getting accustomed to all of those new codes? Starting to get a handle on the new process and waiting for those reimbursements to come rolling in? Not so much? Well, there ...

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The following article is written by Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPMA, CPC-I, of AAPC. AAPC recently released its yearly salary survey and the results of over 12,000 respondents indicated that even during ...

A new Twitter account by revenue cycle vendor MedData is giving perhaps the best visual representation of just how vast the new ICD-10 diagnostic coding library is. EveryICD10 has been sharing a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...