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, ...

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The number of diagnosis codes has expanded from 13,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10 codes, with 78 percent of ICD-9 diagnosis codes mapping 1-to-1 with an ICD-10 code, either exactly or approximately.

CMS is encouraging all ASCs and hospitals to begin prepping for the ICD-10 transition, though the final implementation deadline is expected to be in late 2014. Here are five of their suggestions for ...

A new study by researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System suggests that a simple tweak to how artificial intelligence (AI) ...

395 new diagnosis codes have been proposed by CMS for fiscal year 2024. CMS recently released the fiscal year 2024 inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule, and with it came the annual ...

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 ...

Central Learning is running an online ICD-10 coding contest that promises $5,000 to three medical coders. The "Code your way to $5K" contest is open to U.S. medical coders and has three divisions: - ...

In an interview, the section chief of hepatology at Rush University Medical Center discussed why the addition of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification ...

The U.S. is among the last countries to implement the ICD-10 codes, health care's 'dictionary.' ICD-10 gives providers a larger and more nuanced selection of diagnoses. The switch has been delayed for ...

New diagnostic codes that describe a patient as under-immunized against COVID-19 were introduced to help doctors identify patients potentially at risk for more-severe COVID and to help health ...

The implementation of ICD-10 will allow healthcare providers to capture more detailed information about domestic violence and abuse, according to an ICD-10 Monitor report. ICD-9 already includes codes ...