Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients and ...

Since ICD-10 is formally divided into two separate and distinct code sets, identification of which code set (ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS or both) and the timing of the training will be critical in any ...

A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open suggests symptom-specific ICD-10 codes don't always capture COVID-19-related symptoms. An electronic health record review of 2,201 patients who ...

If you think you can wait until 2013 to evaluate your system processes and work protocols for the ICD-10 implementation, think again! The ICD-10 implementation doesn’t mean you simply need to purchase ...

Cardiovascular health Researchers sought to determine CV event occurrence in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and assess the accuracy of diagnosis by ICD code compared with ...

Background and goal: The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system standardizes diagnostic codes globally, enabling accurate comparisons of health data. This study investigated regional ...

No two patients are the same. Furthermore, therapists know well that no two patients with dementia are ever the same. We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily ...

Earlier this year, payers and providers were scrambling to figure out how to transition from ICD-9 codes to the new ICD-10 system by the original deadline of October 1, 2013. Considering the amount of ...

CMS has provided ICD-10-CM coding updates for fiscal year 2020 that include 273 additions 21 deletions and 30 revisions, according to the American Health Information Management Association. 2. H8141 ...

A new Twitter account by revenue cycle vendor MedData is giving perhaps the best visual representation of just how vast the new ICD-10 diagnostic coding library is. EveryICD10 has been sharing a new ...