Nobody needs to go to medical school to know that people have two ears. However, if physicians treat a patient with suppurative, or pus-discharging, otitis media, they don't have to specify left ear, ...

The transition to ICD-10 is already beginning to change the make-up of coding staffs. While ICD-9 coders, aka Niners, tended to be predominantly middle-aged women unready or unwilling to learn the new ...

1. Ask outsourced coding vendors for documentation on ICD-10 transition plans. Many ASCs outsource their coding to third-party vendors, meaning surgery center leaders must speak to vendors about their ...

With the flip of the calendar to 2012, the ICD-10 implementation deadline of Oct. 1, 2013, suddenly appears very closer. To be sure, the wheels are turning for the conversion of the current Medicare ...

President Barack Obama signed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 into law April 1, which, in addition to shielding physicians from a 24-percent reimbursement cut under Medicare’s ...

It's official. ICD-11 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. The American Medical Association (AMA) says so. OK, maybe I'm jumping the gun. But now that the AMA plans to evaluate the ICD-11 code ...