Ever since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, billing an insurance company for treatment of a given health condition requires that the condition be identified to ...

The IDC-10 code set, which debuted October 1, 2015, allows clinicians to more precisely describe diseases and conditions than they could before. Using ICD-9, a hand surgeon operating on a broken ...

When the condition no longer exists, the ICD-9 introduction states, “Do not include codes for conditions that were previously treated and no longer exist.” For example, a malignant lesion is ...

Coding accuracy under ICD-10 is gradually improving, according to a post at ICD10Monitor, but it’s not yet at the same level that was achieved under its predecessor. Looking at coding by 50 ...

With the adoption of the ICD-10 coding system, the number of medical codes for various diagnoses and disease conditions will increase from about 18,000 to about 155,000 entries. [1] ...

References [1] Clinical diagnosis groups developed to bridge the ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM coding transition and monitor trends in workers’ compensation claims — Ohio, 2011–2018.

With the new ICD-11, we have a complete system to document events or near misses,” Dr. Jakob said. More articles on coding, billing and collections: 3 common medical billing and coding challenges ...

Study approach: Researchers analyzed over 292 million primary care visits for acute respiratory infections in Poland between 2010 and 2019, using ICD-10 codes (J00–J22).