We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio During an internal chart review, the ...

CMS has announced the partial freeze on updates to both the ICD-9 and ICD-10 clinical coding sets is expected to continue through the new ICD-10 implementation date of Oct. 1, 2015. The last full ...

The third set of codes used by physician practices are those that indicate a diagnosis: the International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM). The version of ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio In this issue, Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDE ...

This study determined that ICD-9 codes 433.X1, 434.XX, and V12.54 had positive predictive values >90%, and may be used to focus care on stroke patients. A total of 4689 patients with 10,376 unique ...

For the last couple weeks I’ve been on a search for software based coding tools that are used for coding ICD-10 diagnosis codes for the purpose of claims submission. I’m looking for something better ...

The health care industry is “not progressing at a suitable pace” to be ready for tens of thousands of new government-mandated “ICD-10” codes used to describe diseases and hospital procedures in the ...

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 ...

Diabetes included both type I and type II and was defined as any occurrence of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition (ICD-9) diagnosis codes 250.xx, 357.2, 362.0x, or 366.41; ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control assessed whether specific secondary ICD-9-CM infection codes could act as predictors of surgical site infections, according to the ...

In a session at the 11th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 14, Tim Meakem, MD, medical director at ProVation Medical, discussed the increased ...

Crosswalks can map codes in either direction, from ICD-10 to ICD-9 or the reverse. But Dr. Andrew Boyd, assistant professor in biomedical and health information sciences at the University of Illinois ...