The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) have released the updated ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting for fiscal year ...

ICD-10 coding is the backbone of accurate medical billing, compliance, and patient care documentation. Updated guidelines and best practices stress specificity, laterality, and correct sequencing to ...

ICD-10-CM coding can be challenging for coders in the outpatient setting. It is important to remember that the Official ICD-10-CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting provide a road map to ensure ...

The agency also updated the 2021 ICD-10-PCS Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting to include two new guidelines. CMS recently released the fiscal year (FY) 2021 ICD-10-PCS code set, which ...

CMS and the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics released changes to the ICD-10-CM guidelines for fiscal year 2019. 1. The new guidelines apply to all hospital inpatient and outpatient coding ...

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 ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Like it or not, ICD-10-CM is here and an expanded and ...

Addressing a recent motion to dismiss, the Northern District of California predominantly denied Kaiser Permanente’s (“Kaiser”) motion to dismiss the government’s complaint in United States ex rel.