Among the many current changes in the healthcare industry is a transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes. One of the major changes of ICD-10 is an increase of specificity, as it has 68,000 codes compared ...

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 ...

Despite the rapidly approaching conversion date, recent surveys have shown many providers still have a lot of ground to cover before they're prepared to take on ICD-10. Although transitioning to ...

There is no doubt that the U.S. healthcare system will transition to ICD-10. Whether it happens in 2011, as proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), or at a later date, it is ...

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Designed to help prepare users for the scheduled October 1, 2014 switch to ICD-10 diagnosis codes, IMAGINE Conduit provides a crosswalk for converting electronic 837 claim files that utilize current ...

The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will require collaboration between healthcare providers, vendors and consultants to be successful, according to an ICD-10 Watch report. Collaboration can lead to ...

To help healthcare professionals with this transition, MPR has partnered with ICD-10 Charts to offer a free interactive ICD-9 conversion tool and reference charts covering the most commonly used codes ...

SNOMED was so important to healthcare's switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 medical coding, ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, MD says, that he was willing to support the one-year delay to achieve the necessary ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on January 15 the final regulation to replace the ICD-9-CM code sets now used to report healthcare diagnoses and inpatient procedures with ...

According to CMS, the transition from the ICD-9 to the ICD-10 diagnosis coding system is set to occur on October 1, 2105. The ICD-10 transition was originally scheduled for October 1, 2013, but has ...