Unless there is another delay, the United States will transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in all health care settings on October 1, 2015. This will not be a gradual transition as there will be no grace ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

The American Medical Association would rather the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services got rid of ICD-10 altogether, but in case that doesn’t happen, the organization is urging the government to ...

National Medical Billing Services Senior Vice President, Coding Angela Talton, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPC-H, discussed how ambulatory surgery centers can prepare for the transition to ICD-10 in a ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Friday a proposed regulation to replace the ICD-9-CM code sets now used to report healthcare diagnoses and inpatient procedures with the ...

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