ICD-10-CM coding can be challenging for coders in the outpatient setting. It is important to remember that the Official ICD-10-CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting provide a road map to ensure ...

The fiscal year 2021 update to the ICD-10-CM code set introduced new codes to describe cytokine release syndrome (CRS), also known as a cytokine storm. A version of this article was first published ...

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, ...

ICD-11 goes into effect Jan. 1, 2022 and will be available in electronic and print versions, according to Laurie Johnson, an American Health Information Management Association-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS ...

No two patients are the same. Furthermore, therapists know well that no two patients with dementia are ever the same. We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily ...

The World Health Organization’s fully-electronic 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases contains 55,000 codes, compared to the 14,400 in ICD-10, Medscape reports. “We are working ...

1.How hospitals can prepare for new ICD-10 codes on human trafficking Nelly Leon-Chisen, director of coding and classification at the American Hospital Association, conducted a question-and-answer ...

American health care has a love-hate relationship with the venerable International Classification of Diseases (ICD),” begins a commentary released yesterday as a Web First by Health Affairs. Since ...

Staging is not required in all glaucoma coding, but when it is, it is indicated under the category code. With the addition of laterality and staging, the sheer number of glaucoma codes explodes in ICD ...

Hospitals are facing a steady rise in payment disputes over their assignment of a Diagnosis Related Group (DRG). These disputes fall into two ...