You can prevent costly claims denials by following these guidelines. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued instructions clarifying current diagnosis coding guidelines for ...

On Oct. 1, 142 new codes take effect, many of them five-digit codes that allow for more specific reporting. This year's diagnosis code changes come with good news: There are fewer changes than last ...

A group of physicians and researchers examined the financial impact of third-party reimbursement as the definition for the ICD-9 arthroscopy code changed over time and published their results in The ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control assessed whether specific secondary ICD-9-CM infection codes could act as predictors of surgical site infections, according to the ...