The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) have released the updated ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting for fiscal year ...

Significant reimbursement losses are inevitable when epidural and tendon sheath injection procedures are reported incorrectly. Improper reporting is often due to a lack of understanding of the ...

Medical coding professionals are entering a pivotal moment in 2026 as the industry grapples with the April 1 ICD-10-CM guideline updates and the most extensive CPT changes in recent memory, featuring ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After receiving education on coding, all providers had a significant improvement in coding for all coding levels ...

The new Medicare and Medicaid coding guidelines for office visits are a big deal. Ensuring that they benefit the people who need them is a bigger one. It is clearer now that the federal government and ...

Coding of physician office visits can be very confusing – and is ever-changing. Every year, regulations and guidelines change, and it is difficult for providers to keep up. Most groups have coding ...

Medical school curriculum is heavy in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and clinical rotations or clerkships. There is very little, if any, instruction on proper coding and billing for ...

The American Medical Association's CPT Editorial Panel at its February meeting approved technical corrections to the E/M coding guidelines for outpatient visits. The American Medical Association’s ...

Although Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are not currently evaluating facility evaluation and management (E&M) services, it may not be long before they do. In the 2010 final rule for the hospital ...

Editor's Note: Since the publication of this article, the CDC has reversed its previous guidance and provided a dedicated ICD-10 code for COVID-19. Click here for details. Given the continuing spread ...

Every programming language has its own set of stylistic conventions that are meant to promote readability. It is a very important aspect of software development that is heavily stressed by many ...