You can prevent costly claims denials by following these guidelines. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued instructions clarifying current diagnosis coding guidelines for ...
Editor's note: This post was updated March 19, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved up the effective date for a new diagnosis code for COVID-19 from Oct. 1 to April 1. Family ...
Medicomp Systems CMO Dr. Jay Anders explains why calling ICD-10 a diagnosis is a software design flaw, and how clinical ...
Medical billing and coding systems ensure that health providers get paid for their services. Learn the steps in medical ...
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the use of U09.9, an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) code ...
A new study from researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System suggests that a simple tweak to how artificial intelligence (AI) assigns diagnostic codes could significantly improve accuracy, even ...
Colonoscopy billing can be very complex, hinging on distinctions between screening and diagnostic intent. A single ICD-10 code, CPT selection or missing modifier can shift a procedure from fully ...
Gulf War illness (GWI), the chronic, debilitating condition linked to military service in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, will receive a dedicated diagnostic code in the October 2025 release of the ...
Payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are adjusted by a risk-score model that is calibrated on diagnostic and demographic data from traditional Medicare beneficiaries and then applied to MA ...
Claim denial rates vary significantly by payer type -- whether they be public or private, or what insurance company owns them and where they are located -- but the ...