Medical coding is the conversion of healthcare diagnoses, procedures, medical services, and equipment into ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS codes. Healthcare organizations need to use the appropriate medical codes to describe services provided in claims submitted to commercial...
This is an update to the blog ICD-10-CM Coding Updates 2022 New ICD-10 codes and ICD-10-PCS codes will come into effect on October 1, 2022. Issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on June 9, 2022, the 2023 ICD-10 code updates include 1,176 new,...
With the introduction of ICD-10 codes in 2015, physicians had to make major changes to documentation. What healthcare providers should keep in mind at all times is that it is documentation that gets coded. With good, comprehensive clinical notes, medical billing and...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has released the FY 2023 ICD-10-PCS codes and procedure coding and reporting guidelines, effective from October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023. There are 331 new and 64 deleted codes, totaling 78,496 ICD-10-PCS codes...
Chronic liver disease, otherwise known as cirrhosis, is the last stage of liver disease. It is the condition which replaces healthy liver tissues with scar tissue which causes permanent damage to the liver. The overuse of alcohol, diseases caused by viruses like...
