Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Remote ICD deactivation for patients receiving hospice care was successful in a small feasibility study.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CPT codes rather than ICD codes may be a more effective proxy to determine the actual number of skin cancers ...

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 ...

The transition to ICD-10-CM has been a pivotal development in healthcare coding, offering increased specificity and improved clinical data capture compared to its predecessor. This enhanced coding ...

Mirela Habibović, M.Sc.; Matthew M. Burg, Ph.D.; Susanne S. Pedersen, Ph.D. ATP = ; CBT = cognitive behavioral rehabilitation; CCR = comprehensive cardiac ...

Researchers compared billing codes from electronic health records to accurately quantify how many skin cancers patients had. Despite keratinocyte cancers being the most common malignant neoplasms ...

Longer-term results of the DANISH trial confirm what was seen 4 years earlier: an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) does not reduce the risk of all-cause or CV mortality in patients with ...

Physicians have voiced concerns that the mandated coding changes will disrupt the care provided to patients, according to KHOU.com. Here are five points: 1. Nearly two out of three Texas physicians ...

The long-awaited final rule for FY 2022 provided updates in payment rates, wage index, value-based purchasing, quality reporting and a pause to the anticipated parity adjustment. Of equal interest, we ...

Addressing a recent motion to dismiss, the Northern District of California predominantly denied Kaiser Permanente’s (“Kaiser”) motion to dismiss the government’s complaint in United States ex rel.