Many healthcare associations and experts have urged providers to begin preparing for ICD-10 now even though the deadline is two years away. While starting ICD-10 training now will help hospitals meet ...

A new federally mandated medical coding system designed to better track diagnoses and treatments is affecting dozens of core applications for healthcare providers and insurance payers, and is ...

Check to ensure your practice management system allows for dual coding. ICD-10 is only required for HIPAA-covered entities. PM systems will need to code in ICD-9 and ICD-10 to ensure claims can be ...

Ready or not, the U.S. healthcare industry is poised to flip the switch from the ICD-9 to the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural coding system on Oct. 1, significantly changing how billions of dollars ...

This can be done by performing simple documentation audits comparing ICD-9 coding and documentation with its ICD-10 counterpart and taking note of the gaps. In its entirety, the ICD-10 code set has ...