ICD-9 coding Use of specific diagnoses improves the quality of claims and is just as important as CPT coding.

Injury codes in ICD-10 require a seventh character to indicate the number of the encounter that the patient is being seen for that injury (eg, initial encounter vs subsequent or follow-up encounter).

Lolita Jones, RHIA, CSS, independent coding and billing consultant, discusses 10 ways ICD-10 will affect billing and coding processes in an ambulatory surgery center. This article is the fourth ...

ICD-10-CM codes must be submitted to the payer in order for a health care provider to receive reimbursement for medical services.

Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients ...

Cold antibody hemolytic anemia is a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by the premature destruction of red blood cells by autoantibodies at temperatures of approximately 0 to 10 degrees Celsius.

WHO previewed a new International Classification of Diseases, ICD-11, which includes updates to codes related to antimicrobial resistance, adds gaming as an addictive disorder and categorizes ...

Medical practitioners can enter the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code "W17.9" to quickly register another fall from a milk crate.

How, you ask? Well, the FY 2023 ICD-10 updates are now in effect. Therapists and the interdisciplinary team should take note of the added specificity we have long awaited to coding for dementia.

Codes for glaucoma in ICD-10 reflect changes from ICD-9: in particular, the addition of a seventh character for reporting the stage of glaucoma, in place of an additional diagnosis code.