After three delays and much industry opposition, the United States’ healthcare industry transitioned Oct. 1 to ICD-10, catching up with the latest version of the international classification of ...

Diagnosis and treatment planning are arguably the centerpiece of dental practice. Quantifying and recording a patient's complete set of dental and medical diagnoses requires the use of a common coding ...

CMS attempts to answer some of those questions in a new video, “Coding for ICD-10-CM: More of the Basics,” that reviews basic information over the new coding system set to be integrated October 2015.

Starting Oct. 1, the day ICD-10 goes into effect, CMS’ fraud prevention system will use data from the new code set to identify patterns that could indicate fraud, according to a Healthcare Finance ...

In an interview, the section chief of hepatology at Rush University Medical Center discussed why the addition of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification ...

With the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, definitely being implemented on October 1, 2015, CMS just completed the first week of end-to-end testing of the new coding. With the ...

Within a Washington DC-area consultancy, employees are gathering early in what the agency has demarcated as the war room. Some hospitals, meanwhile, have established a command center for triage, while ...

A Feb. 16 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) makes a claim about the federal government's surveillance efforts. "The federal government is tracking the unvaccinated," reads the text featured ...