On Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will add another 5,500 codes to the ICD-10 diagnostic library, officials announced in a March 9 meeting. The addition will come exactly one ...

Based on recent survey results, NueMD found that only 11.4% of healthcare professionals said they felt “highly confident” that they would be adequately trained for ICD-10 by October 1. “After seeing ...

At the AHIMA National Convention in Chicago, attendees had one eye on the Presidential election and one on the conference. Now that the election cycle is over, healthcare regulatory compliance ...

October is the first month health insurers and medical-care providers have to use new government-mandated ICD-10 medical codes. With reports that some weren't ready for the rollout, any glitches in ...

Not since Jan. 1, 2000, have so many industry professionals had their eyes on a deadline as they do on Oct. 1, 2015. Questions abound regarding the financial repercussions of the coding format ...

ICD-10 — the 10th version of the World Health Organization’s medical classification system — will be used to code healthcare claims in the U.S. beginning Oct. 1, 2015. Here are 15 things to know about ...

DST Health Solutions, LLC, will now be able to leverage ICD-10 Code Translation Tool from 3M Health Information Systems to help health plan clients transition their business operations to support new ...

Editor's note: For more on this topic, stay tuned for an upcoming Health Policy Brief update on transitioning to ICD-10. The on again, off again plans for ICD-10 code set implementation leaves many ...

With the implementation of ICD-10, the number of diagnostic codes increased from 13,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10 codes. The influx of codes brought a lot of apprehension, and many providers were ...