Often too little attention is paid to documentation, coding, and billing in many medical practices. This creates the risk of financial penalty and legal jeopardy.

Researchers compared billing codes from electronic health records to accurately quantify how many skin cancers patients had.

Background: The October 1, 2015 US health care diagnosis and procedure codes update, from the 9th to 10th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), abruptly changed the structure, ...

The American Medical Association reviewed the ways Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes support value-based care (VBC) — and identified new opportunities to accelerate future adoption.

The current international standard for medical coding is ICD-10 (the tenth version of International Classification of Disease codes), from the World Health Organization (WHO).

The 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool is a cloud-based application that leverages more than 30 years of 3M coding experience to analyze clinical information, identify complex coding relationships ...

Diagnosis coding is the forgotten stepchild in medical practices. Physician coding has focused on Current Procedural Terminology codes, which drives revenue when services are provided under a fee ...

Correct coding of a corpectomy requires knowledge of several factors, including the diagnosis, amount of the vertebral body removed, the region of the spine on which the procedure was performed ...