On Oct. 1, 2014, ICD-9, the outdated code sets used for 30 years to report medical diagnoses, will be replaced by ICD-10. Not only is the structure of ICD-10 entirely dif- ferent from ICD-9, the ...

A patient’s diagnosis drives his or her care from admission to billing. In an electronic health record, the diagnosis may trigger rules that fire consults to other departments, remind the physician of ...

Lolita Jones, RHIA, CSS, independent coding and billing consultant, discusses five ways ICD-10 will affect “front office” processes in an ambulatory surgery center. This article is the second ...

Steve Claypool, MD, is vice president of clinical development and informatics, and Allison Errickson, CPC-H, is director of coding compliance and content, Clinical Solutions Division, for ProVation ...

On October 1, 2014, a new version of diagnosis coding -- the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) [1]-- goes into effect. A significant change for ...

DocAssistant’s free AI coding tool gives billing teams, administrators, and clinicians instant, intelligent access to ...

William Rogers, MD, director of the Physicians Regulatory Issues Team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will act as ICD-10 ombudsman to the federal agency, acting CMS administrator ...