The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the National Center for Health Statistics have issued updated ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS guidelines for the latter half of fiscal year 2026. The release ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Effective April 1, 2020 through September 30, 2020, a new diagnosis code U07.1 was added to the ICD-10-CM code set for the novel coronavirus COVID-19: U07.1. The ICD-10-CM Official Coding and ...

The American Health Information Management Association's 2014 ICD-10 and Computer Assisted Coding Summit April 22-23 in the nation's capital featured the latest industry reaction to the ICD-10 delay.

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 ...

The healthcare sector is at a tipping point: Microsoft's March 2026 launch of Copilot Health and updated governance frameworks have transformed M365 Copilot from a productivity experiment into a ...

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 ...