ICD-10-CM coding can be challenging for coders in the outpatient setting. It is important to remember that the Official ICD-10-CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting provide a road map to ensure ...
Atigeo sources explained that its xPatterns platform enables a breakthrough ICD-10 coding solution that streamlines the compliance process optimally. Using xPatterns, ICD coders link to a portion or ...
An ectopic pregnancy is reported using an ICD-10-CM code from category O00.- (ectopic pregnancy), which is divided into five subcategories. A version of this article was first published January 15, ...
SNOMED was so important to healthcare's switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 medical coding, ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, MD says, that he was willing to support the one-year delay to achieve the necessary ...
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 ...
Implementation of ICD-10, or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision, is on the horizon. This significant, next-generation change in the ...
The Social Security Administration has spent the past 10 years cutting its rate of errors nearly in half for the medical diagnosis coding used for millions of disability benefit recipients. But now ...
A Feb. 16 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) makes a claim about the federal government's surveillance efforts. "The federal government is tracking the unvaccinated," reads the text featured ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday announced the finalization of a rule that will delay by one year the deadline for healthcare providers to implement the ICD-10 medical ...