At the beginning of April, President Barack Obama signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. The legislation delayed a 24 percent reduction in Medicare rates for physicians ...
Feeling better about ICD-10? Getting accustomed to all of those new codes? Starting to get a handle on the new process and waiting for those reimbursements to come rolling in? Not so much? Well, there ...
The following article is written by Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPMA, CPC-I, of AAPC. AAPC recently released its yearly salary survey and the results of over 12,000 respondents indicated that even during ...
The Table shows the code changes for each of these conditions. Comparing the 2 columns of the table will give you a good overview of the types of diagnostic changes that are coming. Both the Centers ...
The recent concessions wrung from the CMS by the American Medical Association and other ICD-10 protesters are no panacea for a smooth transition to the voluminous and complex codes. It might not even ...
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 ...
A new Twitter account by revenue cycle vendor MedData is giving perhaps the best visual representation of just how vast the new ICD-10 diagnostic coding library is. EveryICD10 has been sharing a new ...
ICD-11 made something of a surprise appearance this week. Hospital executives and staff reading that the next iteration of the International Classification of Diseases system will contain a new code ...
ICD-11 made something of a surprise appearance this week. Hospital executives and staff reading that the next iteration of the International Classification of Diseases system will contain a new code ...