Researchers compared billing codes from electronic health records to accurately quantify how many skin cancers patients had. Despite keratinocyte cancers being the most common malignant neoplasms ...

The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient’s complex symptoms, and a clinician’s efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous ...

WASHINGTON – Complex rehab technology (CRT) stakeholders were pleasantly surprised when CMS recently removed the ICD-10 requirements for skin protection and positioning cushions and backs.

Healthcare organization CFOs are facing a perfect storm of challenges around medical coding. With few workers entering a field dominated by older Gen X-ers and Baby Boomers, there’s a growing gap in ...

The fiscal year 2021 update to the ICD-10-CM code set introduced new codes to describe cytokine release syndrome (CRS), also known as a cytokine storm. A version of this article was first published ...

No two patients are the same. Furthermore, therapists know well that no two patients with dementia are ever the same. We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily ...