The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued a new fact sheet on the ICD-10 coding system healthcare organizations will be required to use by Oct. 1, 2013. According to CMS, the ...

Compiling a list of all codes that might be used for a procedure helps ensure bills are sent out correctly, according to Medical Bill Consultants President and CEO Beth Morgan. Ms. Morgan shared the ...

Medical coders play a crucial role in the revenue cycle process, as they help ensure health systems, hospitals and physicians are properly reimbursed for the services they provide. Here are 14 things ...

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 ...

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 ...

R87610 Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance on cytologic smear of cervix (ASC-US) R87611 Atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic ...

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 ...

Revenue cycle management performance has never been more important. And recent advances in technology, particularly artificial intelligence, offer much potential for healthcare's administrative ...