CMS has identified potential claims processing issues that span the ICD-10 implementation date, or when ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes may both apply, according to a Medicare Learning Network Matters report ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just read a blog by Dr. Dayle Jones that could have an important influence in the endgame effort to save DSM 5 from itself. See it at http://my.counseling.org/2011 ...

The news that someone slipped a provision into the Sustainable Growth Rate patch legislation that will once again delay the transition to ICD-10 is disappointing, and symptomatic of the seemingly ...