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 ...

Medical practice executives are deeply worried about the anticipated cost, loss of productivity and clinical documentation changes for ICD-10 conversion, finds a new study from the Medical Group ...

Practice management systems will play a key role in the transition to ICD-10. Here are five statistics on where physician practice PM systems stand in the race to prepare for the new code set, ...

With the Oct. 1, 2013, implementation date for adopting the new ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes rapidly approaching, it is critical that practice leaders become aware of the impact this change will have on ...

In a Physicians Practice article, Betsy Nicoletti, founder of Codapedia.com, lays out the signs that indicate your medical practice is not ready to transition to ICD-10. 1. Your practice hasn’t spent ...

Dr. Andrew Kleinman would rather spend his time with patients than dealing with billing. The New York plastic surgeon is worried that next fall, when he has to switch to a new medical coding system ...

The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) is a classification system that was established and maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO) along with ten other ...