Many healthcare associations and experts have urged providers to begin preparing for ICD-10 now even though the deadline is two years away. While starting ICD-10 training now will help hospitals meet ...

Curtis Dubay, recognized as a leading expert on taxation issues, is a former research fellow in tax and economic policy. The House of Representatives recently passed H.R 4302, a temporary "fix" to the ...

Expert, outsourced coders from H.I.M. ON CALL perform ICD-10 coding via remote or onsite options; allowing the hospitals' internal coding team to focus on day-to-day production or ICD-10 training, ...

Payers are on track for the implementation of ICD-10 and do not anticipate problems with processing payments -- at least according to Ian Bonnet, vice president leading the ICD-10 rollout at health ...

Ready or not, the U.S. healthcare industry is poised to flip the switch from the ICD-9 to the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural coding system on Oct. 1, significantly changing how billions of dollars ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control assessed whether specific secondary ICD-9-CM infection codes could act as predictors of surgical site infections, according to the ...

Ongoing education and assessment are critical to success for healthcare systems transitioning to the new code set, according to early adopters at the American Health Information Management Association ...