In the high-stakes battle over a new diagnosis and procedure coding system for the U.S. health care industry, hospitals are pitted against physicians, who are allied (gulp) with health insurers. This ...
Curtis Dubay, recognized as a leading expert on taxation issues, is a former research fellow in tax and economic policy. The House of Representatives recently passed H.R 4302, a temporary "fix" to the ...
Doctors and hospitals will have a higher bar to clear when submitting insurance claims, starting today. Federal law requires them to begin tracking patient care and submitting insurance claims using ...
ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014, and will require health care organizations to switch from the soon-to-be outdated ICD-9. Srividya ...
Primary care physicians are up in arms about the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), and no doubt the new diagnosis system is complex and highly specific. But although ...
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 ...
American health care has a love-hate relationship with the venerable International Classification of Diseases (ICD),” begins a commentary released yesterday as a Web First by Health Affairs. Since ...
There are three major coding systems used by medical billers and insurers: the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and Healthcare Common Procedure ...
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 3M Health Information Systems has released a new version of the 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool (3M CTT) with productivity enhancements, new code mapping features, ...
Web-based curriculum trains physicians to capture complete and accurate ICD-10 documentation SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 3M Health Information Systems is enriching its web-based ICD-10 Education ...
The fiscal year 2021 update to the ICD-10-CM code set introduced new codes to describe cytokine release syndrome (CRS), also known as a cytokine storm. A version of this article was first published ...