Unless there is another delay, the United States will transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in all health care settings on October 1, 2015. This will not be a gradual transition as there will be no grace ...
Medical billing and coding systems ensure that health providers get paid for their services. Learn the steps in medical ...
Medical coding and billing productivity is going to decline after Oct. 1. That means it will take longer to prepare medical claims and receive reimbursements. How much time is guesswork. But the ...
The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient’s complex symptoms, and a clinician’s efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous ...
New codes streamline hospital billing, enable tracking of clinical outcomes, and expand access to QUELIMMUNE® (SCD-PED) therapyUniversal codes ...
Despite the recent news of a delay in the implantation date, ICD-10 remains a priority for healthcare, and those hospital executives who aren’t concerned about clinical coder productivity declines may ...
The PAWSIC Skin Failure Codes Position Paper (PSFCPP), Version 1.1, published September 30, 2026, explains why skin failure ...
One of the main problems in the process of generating mortality and morbidity data--one that is common to all countries--is the training of coders for the application of a classification such as the ...