By: Tanya Gill | 2011-09-16 | Health & Fitness Process revisions and implementations are not new to the US medical claims processing industry. But, after the ICD-9 transition in 1970s, ICD-10 is the major change that the medical billing and coding industry faces. read more
By: Tanya Gill | 2011-09-17 | Health & Fitness If you are a physician billing company providing physicians billing services to hospitals & medical practices, you have to take extra care to implement ICD-10. read more
By: George Kagan | 2012-03-07 | Online education Training in ICD 10, will involve studying and learning the list that keeps track of all the codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social situations and external causes of injury or diseases. This listing is administered and run by the World Health Organization (WHO) and can be expanded to a massive list of over 141,000 codes. read more
By: Tim Jenkins | 2011-01-18 | Article Marketing The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD 10) is a coding mechanism for diseases and other health conditions. The medical code set includes more than 14,400 different codes and allows for more tracking capability than the previous code set (ICD 9). It's no longer a matter of if or when but how to approach ICD 10 conversion. read more
By: sunny sethi | 2012-03-20 | Health & Fitness ICD-10 is a medical classification of diseases, diagnosis and medical procedures and is maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO). ICD-10 system was created because the current system being used in the United States has become outdated and the room to expand for new diagnosis, diseases and procedures is limited. Also the current system of ICD-9 codes does not provide the necessary details for a patient's medical conditions or the procedures. read more
By: James Smith | 2010-09-28 | Health & Fitness Having issue while upgrade medical coding from ICD 9 to ICD 10. Use ICD 10 Bridge tool make smooth transition. read more
By: Derry Lee | 2011-10-21 | Business Ideas ICD are gradually going into our daily life, such as Dell ICD. Perhaps you should learn hisitry of ICD first. The first ICD codes were developed by a French physician named Jacques Bertillon. At this time these codes were referred to as Bertillon Classification of Causes of Death. read more
By: jamesarticle | 2011-09-06 | Health & Fitness This time ICD-9 2012 spotlights on expanded lip neoplasm and glaucoma options apart from new codes for acute respiratory failure and other complications that result after surgery. read more
By: jamesarticle | 2011-12-29 | Health & Fitness Education is the significant part of getting ready for ICD-10 implementation, but you should not spend your time trying to memorize code sets. read more
By: Alice Scott | 2010-03-30 | Insurance October 2013 seems a long way away with little need to prepare now for the changes from ICD9 to ICD10 codes but I recently learned the shocking truth. The Healthcare Billing and Management Association held a conference in Boca Raton this month with a session attended by approximately 200 medical billers on the new ICD10 codes. Even though I have looked into the changes and even written on them, I was shocked to hear all that is really involved. We all need to start paying attention now. read more
By: James Article | 2011-02-17 | Health & Fitness When it comes to ICD-9, your go-to code for unspecified or other specified non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is 202.8x. read more
By: James Smith | 2010-09-09 | Health & Fitness ICD-10 codes will be more detailed and more specific than its predecessor, you may need to encourage your doctors to start being more detailed in his documentation. read more
By: Torrey Kim | 2011-07-29 | Health & Fitness Check out the following examples of how ICD-10 will change your coding options when the calendar turns to Oct. 1, 2013. read more