SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Healthcare reform, new compliance regulations, and the move to outcomes-based payment are putting pressure on clinical documentation and coding processes at hospitals ...

launched its newest generation of coding technology. Optum Enterprise CAC, a computer-assisted coding (CAC) platform, helps hospitals accelerate their transition to ICD-10, increase productivity and ...

ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014, and will require health care organizations to switch from the soon-to-be outdated ICD-9. Srividya ...

The Academy of Professional Coders has announced a comprehensive, five-year ICD-10 training plan, which is intended to guide providers, payors and coders through the ICD-10 implementation process, ...

The World Health Organization’s fully-electronic 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases contains 55,000 codes, compared to the 14,400 in ICD-10, Medscape reports. “We are working ...

Here are eight key things to know: 1. The number of new codes. Compared to fiscal 2021, when 485 codes were added, just 165 codes were added in fiscal 2022. 2. Codes to further describe homelessness.

The fiscal year 2021 update to the ICD-10-CM code set introduced new codes to describe cytokine release syndrome (CRS), also known as a cytokine storm. A version of this article was first published ...

Medical billing and coding systems ensure that health providers get paid for their services. Learn the steps in medical ...

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, ...

An ectopic pregnancy is reported using an ICD-10-CM code from category O00.- (ectopic pregnancy), which is divided into five subcategories. A version of this article was first published January 15, ...