On October 1, 2014, all health plans, health data clearinghouses, and health care providers that transmit health information electronically were to be required to use a new, significantly broader, ...

The October 1 deadline is really just the beginning. As ICD-10 coding gets underway in earnest next month, there will be plenty of questions that need answering for providers nationwide. AHIMA wants ...

The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) is a classification system that was established and maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO) along with ten other ...

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 ...

No two patients are the same. Furthermore, therapists know well that no two patients with dementia are ever the same. We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily ...

The Oregon health system's coder workload has been reduced by nearly 28%, while coding-related denials for autonomously coded radiology cases are now 70% lower than those managed manually. The ...

ICD-10 is here. No, really. That's the reality for thousands of healthcare practices, hospitals, laboratories, specialists and doc-in-the-box walk-up clinics. After years of planning, software ...