“Here at [redacted] we’ve decided to wait until next year to do anything more about ICD-10,” my friend and former colleague wrote in an email the other day. “The thinking is, why should we keep ...

More than one year after the ICD-10 go-live on Oct. 1, 2015, CMS has ended the ICD-10 claims auditing and quality reporting leniency period. Guidelines now require providers to code to reflect ...

Kathy DeVault, manager of professional practice resources at AHIMA, encourages practices to begin training coders and billers now on ICD-10 because of the amount of codes to learn, according to EHR ...

Daniel Essin has trouble seeing how useful ICD-10 codes would be to his practice. After trolling through all the granularity, he concludes, "From a clinical perspective, it doesn't look like ICD-10 ...

The transition to ICD-10 is already beginning to change the make-up of coding staffs. While ICD-9 coders, aka Niners, tended to be predominantly middle-aged women unready or unwilling to learn the new ...

Most experts agree that after the ICD-10 implementation date of Oct. 1, 2013, even well-trained coders will take longer with the new coding system than they did with ICD-9, according to a blog post ...

The 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) is getting closer, and some physician concerns are becoming more concrete. Will it be difficult to get the codes right? Will ...

It might be that IT or finance guys lead the ICD-10 charge, but there's little disputing who the foot soldiers are: medical coders. Indeed, coders will be the ones to put ICD-10 into practice on ...

This is a comprehensive table of gastroenterology ICD-10 codes used by researchers and healthcare professionals and personnel – nurses, medical coders, physicians, et al. This table has been curated ...

This is a comprehensive table of nephrology ICD-10 codes used by researchers and healthcare professionals and personnel – nurses, medical coders, physicians, et al. This table has been curated for ...

This is a comprehensive table of nephrology ICD-10 codes used by researchers and healthcare professionals and personnel – nurses, medical coders, physicians, et al. This table has been curated for ...