SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), an alliance representing 90 percent of the nation’s nonprofit academic medical centers, has expanded its agreement with 3M ...
American health care has a love-hate relationship with the venerable International Classification of Diseases (ICD),” begins a commentary released yesterday as a Web First by Health Affairs. Since ...
1. Ask outsourced coding vendors for documentation on ICD-10 transition plans. Many ASCs outsource their coding to third-party vendors, meaning surgery center leaders must speak to vendors about their ...
Ambience Healthcare rolled out an ICD-10 clinical document integrity assistant for inpatient care, aiming to help hospitalists document more accurate clinical notes and reduce billing and coding ...
In a move that heralds sweeping change in how medical bills are coded, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced a proposal to begin using ICD-10 code sets effective Oct. 1, 2011. The ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a final rule that replaces the ICD-9-CM code set with ICD-10 code sets. The final rule sets a compliance date for the ICD-10 code sets ...
The new system called ICD-10 is the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases used to classify medical conditions and procedures. The implementation is the first nationwide update ...