Nobody needs to go to medical school to know that people have two ears. However, if physicians treat a patient with suppurative, or pus-discharging, otitis media, they don't have to specify left ear, ...

ORLANDO, FL – Converting to the ICD-10 medical diagnosis code set isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s likely to be complicated and expensive, and may entail a loss of productivity that could take five ...

The government is considering a delay, but that doesn't mean you should. Notwithstanding its prior insistence that there would be no delays in the planned transition to ICD-10, the U.S. Department of ...

Implementation planning for ICD-10 should precede code set training because the planning process will take much longer, according to an AAPC report. Kim Reid, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I, director of ...

Someone in your medical practice needs to take charge of the ICD-10 transition. Someone who is organized and willing to learn everything they can about ICD-10 coding. Why can't that someone be you? Of ...

Many healthcare organizations are focusing on being ready for the ICD-10 changeover on Oct. 1. Just as important is what will come after that. This is legend. The fear is that ICD-10 code set is so ...

Meta Health Technology has introduced two ICD-10 online learning tools to assist healthcare professionals in learning the ICD-10 code set that will go into effect Oct. 1, 2013. The online learning ...

The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition (ICD-10), is a clinical cataloging system that went into effect for the U.S. healthcare industry on Oct. 1, 2015, after a series of lengthy ...

Healthcare professionals and ambulatory surgery centers nationwide will be slowly transitioning to the ICD-10 code set in attempts to meet the Oct. 1, 2014, deadline for implementation. Here are seven ...