Researchers compared billing codes from electronic health records to accurately quantify how many skin cancers patients had. Despite keratinocyte cancers being the most common malignant neoplasms ...

The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient’s complex symptoms, and a clinician’s efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous ...

WASHINGTON – Complex rehab technology (CRT) stakeholders were pleasantly surprised when CMS recently removed the ICD-10 ...

In a recent “Talk Ten Tuesday” webinar sponsored by ICD10monitor, Peggy Hapner, manager of the health information management consulting division at MedLearn; Dee Lang, vice president of produce ...

In the weeks following the ICD-10 go-live on Oct. 1, many providers reported minimal to no disruptions. Now, however, after the new codes have been in place for seven months, a recent survey conducted ...

The main feature of civilization is the production, consumption, and accumulation of information in all branches of human activity. All human life, in one way or another, relates to the receipt, ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) has issued a new Category III Current Procedural Terminology (CPT*) code for the use of Imagio® (OA/US) Breast Imaging System, a new modality in breast cancer ...