Coders must be familiar with ICD-10-CM reporting guidelines for common neurological conditions. This article unpacks recent updates to the nervous system chapter of ICD-10-CM including 14 new codes ...

In the high-stakes battle over a new diagnosis and procedure coding system for the U.S. health care industry, hospitals are pitted against physicians, who are allied (gulp) with health insurers. This ...

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 ...

When physicians who haven’t received ICD-10 training hear the upcoming conversion mentioned, you can see fear in their faces, says Joanna Lucas, ICD-10 committee chair and senior administrative ...

The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis, research ...

The number of diagnosis codes has expanded from 13,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10 codes, with 78 percent of ICD-9 diagnosis codes mapping 1-to-1 with an ICD-10 code, either exactly or approximately.

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 ...