You can prevent costly claims denials by following these guidelines. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued instructions clarifying current diagnosis coding guidelines for ...

Put the new and revised codes to use in your practice on Oct. I Like clockwork, on Oct. 1, new and revised ICD-9 codes take effect and others are deleted. This year an array of codes have been ...

A group of physicians and researchers examined the financial impact of third-party reimbursement as the definition for the ICD-9 arthroscopy code changed over time and published their results in The ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control assessed whether specific secondary ICD-9-CM infection codes could act as predictors of surgical site infections, according to the ...