ICD-10: The Y2K of Cardiology Practice Coding is Coming, and This One Will Have Real Impact Y2K came and went, and it was quite a letdown for the “gloom and doomers.” ...

Dual coding will help providers take the step from ICD-9 to ICD-10 and serve the purpose of coding claims for HIPAA and non-HIPAA covered entities. Here are four statistics on whether or not ...

ICD-10 implementation is delayed by at least one more year after the Senate voted, 64-35, Monday evening to approve a temporary, 12-month patch to the sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula ...

As time has gone on, dental coding has become increasingly complicated, making it easy to not catch simple mistakes. Coding experts Charles Blair, DDS, and Glenda Hood of practice management company ...

With IOD's ICD-10 GYM, Methodist Healthcare's coders receive a customized coding library of their charts to practice for the impending ICD-10 implementation on Oct. 1, 2014.

In 1 month, the US healthcare system will transition to International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, whether or not physicians are ready to implement the new coding system.

The new ICD-10 diagnostic codes that took effect on October 1 aroused the kind of fears one might feel reading the Book of Revelation. A seven-headed beast of a code set was going to wreak havoc ...

More than 88 percent of ICD-10 claims filed during the latest round of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services end-to-end testing passed, the federal agency said, with only 2 percent of rejections ...

Congress should recognize the enormous impact the ICD-10 would have on the medical profession and stop or delay its implementation.

Native hard-coding of cases in ICD-10 is the best way to ensure knowledge retention, provide hands-on practice and achieve return on investment for training dollars already spent.

"There are ramifications using any coding system," explains Morin-Spatz. "While people think that ICD-10 will be better, they must also recognize that there will be downsides to it." Here are nine ...