Most experts agree that after the ICD-10 implementation date of Oct. 1, 2013, even well-trained coders will take longer with the new coding system than they did with ICD-9, according to a blog post ...

Physician practices must hustle to either retain or replace their professional coders as a new, more complex set of diagnostic codes called ICD-10 triggers a wave of retirements in that field, ...

It might be that IT or finance guys lead the ICD-10 charge, but there's little disputing who the foot soldiers are: medical coders. Indeed, coders will be the ones to put ICD-10 into practice on ...

7 Common ICD-10 Errors for Hospital Coders The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange recently released a report on its ICD-10 national ...

The transition to ICD-10 is already beginning to change the make-up of coding staffs. While ICD-9 coders, aka Niners, tended to be predominantly middle-aged women unready or unwilling to learn the new ...

Nine years ago, Peter Esswein, a resident of Sandy Springs, Georgia, enrolled in a health information technology degree program at DeVry University to capitalize on the growing prominence of ...

In an in2itive blog post, Dawn Houston, coding supervisor at in2itive the ICD-10 implementation delay to October 2015, and why this does not mean coders and their employers can procrastinate on ...

For those well versed in ICD-9, learning ICD-10 may be akin to learning a second language. Many coders say their biggest fear about the new system that will take effect October 1, 2013 is that it ...

Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients and ...

Diagnosis and treatment planning are arguably the centerpiece of dental practice. Quantifying and recording a patient's complete set of dental and medical diagnoses requires the use of a common coding ...