The health care industry is “not progressing at a suitable pace” to be ready for tens of thousands of new government-mandated “ICD-10” codes used to describe diseases and hospital procedures in the ...

Diagnosis and treatment planning are arguably the centerpiece of dental practice. Quantifying and recording a patient's complete set of dental and medical diagnoses requires the use of a common coding ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. Less than 5 percent of physician practice have made “significant ...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released 1,176 new ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for implementation on October 1. A total of 1,176 new diagnosis codes were recently finalized within ...

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 ...

On April 1, your revenue cycle will have additional diagnosis code options to further capture social determinants of health. The CDC just released upcoming changes to both the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code ...

N99528 Other complication of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract N9953 Complication of continent stoma of urinary tract N99530 Hemorrhage of continent stoma of urinary tract N99531 Infection ...

R87610 Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance on cytologic smear of cervix (ASC-US) R87611 Atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic ...