As ICD-10 draws ever closer, coders, physicians and the IT folks who support them are wondering how they will locate ICD-10 codes when the time comes. Already we're seeing a raft of new smartphone ...

No two patients are the same. Furthermore, therapists know well that no two patients with dementia are ever the same. We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily ...

An ectopic pregnancy is reported using an ICD-10-CM code from category O00.- (ectopic pregnancy), which is divided into five subcategories. A version of this article was first published January 15, ...

Ambience Healthcare rolled out an ICD-10 clinical document integrity assistant for inpatient care, aiming to help hospitalists document more accurate clinical notes and reduce billing and coding ...

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 ...

The October 1 deadline is really just the beginning. As ICD-10 coding gets underway in earnest next month, there will be plenty of questions that need answering for providers nationwide. AHIMA wants ...

The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) is a classification system that was established and maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO) along with ten other ...

ICD-10 is here. No, really. That's the reality for thousands of healthcare practices, hospitals, laboratories, specialists and doc-in-the-box walk-up clinics. After years of planning, software ...

If tidings of comfort and joy don’t fill your holiday season, take heart in knowing that the new national medical billing system has a code to account for whatever comes your way. This fall, the US ...