WASHINGTON – Complex rehab technology (CRT) stakeholders were pleasantly surprised when CMS recently removed the ICD-10 requirements for skin protection and positioning cushions and backs.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the list of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes that do not require either an HCPCS –QR or –Q0 modifier for implantable cardiac device services provided ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a list of new and invalid ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes, effective Oct. 1, according a report from the American Academy of Professional ...

This is a comprehensive table of sleep medicine ICD-10 codes used by researchers and healthcare professionals and personnel – nurses, medical coders, physicians, et al. This table has been curated for ...

On Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will add another 5,500 codes to the ICD-10 diagnostic library, officials announced in a March 9 meeting. The addition will come exactly one ...

This is a comprehensive table of nephrology ICD-10 codes used by researchers and healthcare professionals and personnel – nurses, medical coders, physicians, et al. This table has been curated for ...

The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis, research ...

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 ...

Healthcare is bursting with issues demanding physicians’ attention, but ICD-10 and price transparency are topping the list for 2015, according to a Forbes report. ICD-10 implementation was derailed at ...

Inflammatory arthritis codes increased 30-fold in the transition from the ninth to the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9 and -10), yet few were used in clinical ...