Daniel Essin has trouble seeing how useful ICD-10 codes would be to his practice. After trolling through all the granularity, he concludes, "From a clinical perspective, it doesn't look like ICD-10 ...

Diagnosis and treatment planning are arguably the centerpiece of dental practice. Quantifying and recording a patient's complete set of dental and medical diagnoses requires the use of a common coding ...

CMS has identified potential claims processing issues that span the ICD-10 implementation date, or when ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes may both apply, according to a Medicare Learning Network Matters report ...

As time has gone on, dental coding has become increasingly complicated, making it easy to not catch simple mistakes. Coding experts Charles Blair, DDS, and Glenda Hood of practice management company ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A fundamental change in how physicians provide, record and receive payment for services rendered – also known as medical coding – is coming to the healthcare industry on ...

Ready or not, ICD-10 is coming. On Oct. 1, 2015, the healthcare industry will — barring any unforeseen circumstances — transition to using ICD-10 codes for billing and services. With the entire ...

Starting Oct. 1, the day ICD-10 goes into effect, CMS’ fraud prevention system will use data from the new code set to identify patterns that could indicate fraud, according to a Healthcare Finance ...

With less than one month to go until the Oct. 1 deadline, it’s a race against the clock for U.S. healthcare providers to transition to the 10th version of the International Classification of Diseases.

A Feb. 16 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) makes a claim about the federal government's surveillance efforts. "The federal government is tracking the unvaccinated," reads the text featured ...

Healthcare providers may face disruptions in their payments even if they are on target to operate using ICD-10 codes on Oct. 1, 2014. Since providers will, and indeed need, to be able to pay rent and ...