The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient’s complex symptoms, and a clinician’s efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous ...

Medical coding and billing productivity is going to decline after Oct. 1. That means it will take longer to prepare medical claims and receive reimbursements. How much time is guesswork. But the ...

Series "Map of Anxiety Disorders" Extra Edition Key points of this issueIn the 4th installment, I summarized it in one sentence: "Knowing that research uses DSM and statistics and practice use ICD is ...

As you may have heard, earlier this month the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) announced a series of changes aimed at easing physicians’ ...

Series: "Map of Personality Disorders" #11Key points of this issueEven though they use the same categorical approach, the 10 ...

Despite the recent news of a delay in the implantation date, ICD-10 remains a priority for healthcare, and those hospital executives who aren’t concerned about clinical coder productivity declines may ...

One of the main problems in the process of generating mortality and morbidity data--one that is common to all countries--is the training of coders for the application of a classification such as the ...

Medical billing and medical coding are crucial aspects of the medical revenue landscape. Both jobs ensure health care providers get paid for their services. Medical coders read the providers’ ...

A Harvard-led chart review has identified which ICD-10 billing code strategies most accurately identify true rosacea patients in electronic health record data, completing a validation trilogy that ...

Universal codes establish a framework to enable billing for future potential SCD indications that require renal replacement therapy DENVER, Oct. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- SeaStar Medical Holding ...