With the Oct. 1, 2015, deadline fast-approaching, is your organization ready for ICD-10? Here's a quick readiness assessment to benchmark where you are – and where you should consider being. The ...

In a recent “Talk Ten Tuesday” webinar sponsored by ICD10monitor, Peggy Hapner, manager of the health information management consulting division at MedLearn; Dee Lang, vice president of produce ...

A key element of the data foundation of the United States' health care system will undergo a major transformation in 2014. So, what is the Big Deal on ICD-10? The buzz is that it is all troubling and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diagnosis coding is the forgotten stepchild in medical practices. Physician coding has focused on Current Procedural Terminology codes, which drives revenue when services are provided under a ...

Since the start of ICD-10 in October 2015, healthcare coding productivity and accuracy has fallen, based on an American Health Information Management Association Foundation survey, according to ...

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 ...

In a move that heralds sweeping change in how medical bills are coded, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced a proposed regulation to change the ICD-9 code sets with ICD-10 code ...

Opponents of the new coding standard are calling on Congress to divorce ICD-10 from reimbursement policy altogether and to provide a better transition to a system that is "more appropriate" and "less ...