The launch of tens of thousands of new government-mandated “ICD-10” codes used to describe diseases and hospital procedures in the billing process has seen few problems in the early days of ...

ICD-10 conversion has been a massive undertaking for private insurers as well since they will use the codes in their claims processing and paying doctors and other providers of medical care.

In April 2022, the ICD-10 manual was updated to include three codes tied to COVID-19: "Unvaccinated for Covid-19" (Z28.310) "Partially vaccinated for Covid-19" (Z28.311) ...

October is the first month health insurers and medical-care providers have to use new government-mandated ICD-10 medical codes. With reports that some weren't ready for the rollout, any glitches ...

ASCs should also not discount the impact of ICD-10 on Medicare. “A lot of people think that because ICD-10-CM does not impact APC payment groups, it won’t affect Medicare,” she says. “It will still ...

ICD-9 has about 14,000 individual codes, while ICD-10 encompasses approximately 69,000 individual codes. More codes allow for better specificity. Codes jump from up to five digits in ICD-9 to as ...

On Oct. 1, the United States will transition to new International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for medical diagnoses and inpatient hospital procedures. After this date, all Health ...

As today begins the transition to the new ICD-10 medical codes, health insurance companies are anticipating potential billing problems as a result of the transition, reports Forbes. That's because ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the finalization of a rule that will delay by one year the deadline for healthcare providers to implement the ICD-10 medical coding system.