“If [hospitals] don’t have their major payers lined up and the payers don’t understand how the hospitals are going to code using ICD-10, that becomes a recipe for miscommunication,” he says.

In a July 31 webinar titled, 'ICD-10: Are You Prepared?', Kevin McDonald, senior vice president of ASC billing services for SourceMedical, spoke with a panel of industry professionals on how ASCs can ...

We have clinical informatics staff supporting our physicians in using the new physician support tools to identify the proper ICD-10 codes that are available, like online radios that were created ...

ICD-10-CM codes must be submitted to the payer in order for a health care provider to receive reimbursement for medical services.

Starting Oct. 1, the day ICD-10 goes into effect, CMS' fraud prevention system will use data from the new code set to identify patterns that could indicate fraud, according to a Healthcare Finance ...

While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a year's grace period this summer when it comes to claims coded with ICD-10, not all large commercial payers are following suit.

Peter Muir explains how ICD-10 and meaningful use are backward, timing-wise, and how ICD-10 will result in a loss on investment.

All HIPAA-covered entities, such as physicians, facilities and health insurers, are required to use ICD-10-CM codes for services performed on Oct. 1, 2015 or later. You have only weeks to make ...

With the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), definitely being implemented on October 1, 2015, CMS just completed the first week of end-to-end testing of the new coding.

The new code set will allow clinical IT systems to record far more specific and rich diagnostic information than ICD-9 codes, as it contains more than 155,000 codes, while ICD-9 contains only 17,000.

ICD-10 codes are not new, and the COVID-underimmunized codes added in 2022 are not used to track individuals for reasons other than monitoring vaccination status to assess vaccine efficacy and ...