“If [hospitals] don’t have their major payers lined up and the payers don’t understand how the hospitals are going to code using ICD-10, that becomes a recipe for miscommunication,” he says.

Here are 10 frequently asked questions about ICD-10, based on information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. More information on ICD-10 from CMS can be accessed on the agency's ...

Peter Muir explains how ICD-10 and meaningful use are backward, timing-wise, and how ICD-10 will result in a loss on investment.

We have clinical informatics staff supporting our physicians in using the new physician support tools to identify the proper ICD-10 codes that are available, like online radios that were created ...

ICD-10-CM codes must be submitted to the payer in order for a health care provider to receive reimbursement for medical services.

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 ...

An updated medical coding system ICD-10 will debut on October 1, 2015. Nationwide medical providers set to jump from 14,000 to 69,000 medical codes.

The new code set will allow clinical IT systems to record far more specific and rich diagnostic information than ICD-9 codes, as it contains more than 155,000 codes, while ICD-9 contains only 17,000.