SALT LAKE CITY – As if upgrading the nation’s ICD-9 code set for diseases and treatment to ICD-10, with its many thousands more codes, were not enough of a challenge for health information managers at ...

Most providers associate clinical documentation improvement (CDI) with the transition to ICD-10 coding, however, CDI - a process in which care providers receive feedback from specialists who review ...

Editor's note: For more on this topic, stay tuned for an upcoming Health Policy Brief update on transitioning to ICD-10. The on again, off again plans for ICD-10 code set implementation leaves many ...

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 ...

With the implementation of ICD-10, the number of diagnostic codes increased from 13,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10 codes. The influx of codes brought a lot of apprehension, and many providers were ...

Emergency departments will feel negative impacts from the changeover to the new ICD-10 coding system, according to a paper published this month in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Currently ...