Daniel Essin has trouble seeing how useful ICD-10 codes would be to his practice. After trolling through all the granularity, he concludes, "From a clinical perspective, it doesn't look like ICD-10 ...

Despite the common goal of providing quality patient care, a deeply rooted divide between hospitals and physicians persists. This divide exists—in part—due to different payment methodologies.

After three delays and much industry opposition, the United States’ healthcare industry transitioned Oct. 1 to ICD-10, catching up with the latest version of the international classification of ...

Lacking the expertise in-house and the time and money to seek outside help, many physicians have procrastinated on ICD-10 preparations. This an opportunity for both physicians and health plans to ...

With the implementation of ICD-10, the number of diagnostic codes increased from 13,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10 codes. The influx of codes brought a lot of apprehension, and many providers were ...

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 ...

Here are five key ideas to make ambulatory surgery center revenue cycle management better. 1. Put the right revenue cycle team together. The surgery center depends on collecting payments on-time and ...

I just read a blog by Dr. Dayle Jones that could have an important influence in the endgame effort to save DSM 5 from itself. See it at http://my.counseling.org/2011 ...