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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vancouver, Wash.-based Office Ally has announced it will offer eight free training sessions throughout July to help assist healthcare providers become acclimated with ICD-10. ICD-10 is an ...

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 ...