Gulf War illness (GWI), the chronic, debilitating condition linked to military service in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, will receive a dedicated diagnostic code in the October 2025 release of the ...
Important mental health history is often present in medical records but hard to find, especially when it is missing from the ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) have released the updated ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting for fiscal year ...
A CMS-developed ICD-10-CM course, available through CITI Program's training platform, helps non-coders improve ...
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the use of U09.9, an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) code ...
About 1 in 6 patients with COVID-19 has developed long COVID and nearly 9 in 10 of those cases involve chronic conditions requiring ongoing clinical management, according to a study published May 27 ...
Coding in sports medicine generally uses sports-specific coding systems rather than the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), because of superior applicability to the profile of injury and ...
Payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are adjusted by a risk-score model that is calibrated on diagnostic and demographic data from traditional Medicare beneficiaries and then applied to MA ...
Colonoscopy billing can be very complex, hinging on distinctions between screening and diagnostic intent. A single ICD-10 code, CPT selection or missing modifier can shift a procedure from fully ...