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 ...

One of the most important risk mitigation strategies for ICD-10 will be choosing and empowering leaders. We need to help leaders make the business case for dealing with ICD-10 as an innovation and ...

Starting Oct. 1, the day ICD-10 goes into effect, CMS’ fraud prevention system will use data from the new code set to identify patterns that could indicate fraud, according to a Healthcare Finance ...

Meaningful use incentive programs will help offset the costs associated with implementing ICD-10 at healthcare facilities, according to a Government Health IT report. According to the report, experts ...

The American Hospital Association says changing to ICD-10 makes the Oct. 1, 2012 deadline for stage two of meaningful use unrealistic, according to an AHA advocacy issue paper on health information ...

The news that someone slipped a provision into the Sustainable Growth Rate patch legislation that will once again delay the transition to ICD-10 is disappointing, and symptomatic of the seemingly ...