“If [hospitals] don’t have their major payers lined up and the payers don’t understand how the hospitals are going to code using ICD-10, that becomes a recipe for miscommunication,” he says.

We have clinical informatics staff supporting our physicians in using the new physician support tools to identify the proper ICD-10 codes that are available, like online radios that were created ...

ICD-10-CM codes must be submitted to the payer in order for a health care provider to receive reimbursement for medical services.

Here are 10 frequently asked questions about ICD-10, based on information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. More information on ICD-10 from CMS can be accessed on the agency's ...

Peter Muir explains how ICD-10 and meaningful use are backward, timing-wise, and how ICD-10 will result in a loss on investment.

Starting Oct. 1, the day ICD-10 goes into effect, CMS' fraud prevention system will use data from the new code set to identify patterns that could indicate fraud, according to a Healthcare Finance ...

Those being the same manner of changes and updates to the code set that CMS published with ICD-9, which Williams expects will necessitate taking ICD-10 certification for the rest of her life or until ...

The new code set will allow clinical IT systems to record far more specific and rich diagnostic information than ICD-9 codes, as it contains more than 155,000 codes, while ICD-9 contains only 17,000.

While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a year's grace period this summer when it comes to claims coded with ICD-10, not all large commercial payers are following suit.