Researchers compared billing codes from electronic health records to accurately quantify how many skin cancers patients had.

The current international standard for medical coding is ICD-10 (the tenth version of International Classification of Disease codes), from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Often too little attention is paid to documentation, coding, and billing in many medical practices. This creates the risk of financial penalty and legal jeopardy.

The 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool is a cloud-based application that leverages more than 30 years of 3M coding experience to analyze clinical information, identify complex coding relationships ...

Correct coding of a corpectomy requires knowledge of several factors, including the diagnosis, amount of the vertebral body removed, the region of the spine on which the procedure was performed ...

The American Medical Association reviewed the ways Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes support value-based care (VBC) — and identified new opportunities to accelerate future adoption.

That way, the ICD codes on the medical side align with the CPT codes on the payer side to ensure quick payment.

We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily with dementia and now we finally have the opportunity to code specifically tied to severity.

42 diagnosis code additions, seven deletions, and one code revision will be effective April 1, 2023. The ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting have been expanded to provide more ...