When it comes to ICD-10 and ICD-11, there are generally two camps. There are those that believe ICD-10 is a necessary coding step to take, and all hospitals and providers should make the steady ...

In a July 31 webinar titled, “ICD-10: Are You Prepared?”, Kevin McDonald, senior vice president of ASC billing services for SourceMedical, spoke with a panel of industry professionals on how ASCs can ...

National Medical Billing Services Senior Vice President, Coding Angela Talton, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPC-H, discussed how ambulatory surgery centers can prepare for the transition to ICD-10 in a ...

The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10), will go into effect on October 1, 2014, and doctors, hospitals, and payers will be affected by its implementation. Many large ...

Daniel Essin has trouble seeing how useful ICD-10 codes would be to his practice. After trolling through all the granularity, he concludes, "From a clinical perspective, it doesn't look like ICD-10 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . All HIPAA-covered entities, such as physicians, facilities and health insurers, are required to use ICD-10-CM ...

One of the major arguments against the ICD-10 transition are the financial costs to medical practices. Sure, there are accusations of bureaucratic overreach and preventing physicians from spending ...

The proposed switch from ICD-9 codes sets to International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification will be a huge information technology challenge for the U.S. healthcare ...

A previous version of this story incorrectly stated who created the new diagnostic codes used to track food insecurity among other things. It also did not accurately reflect the makeup of The Gravity ...