What Impact Did ICD-10 Conversion Have On Hospital Denial Rates?

Published: Wed, 07/06/16

After three delays and much industry opposition, the United States' healthcare industry transitioned Oct. 1, 2015, to ICD-10, increasing the number of diagnostic codes from 13,000 to 68,000. The transition was expected to disrupt providers' finances...

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CMS Releases New OASIS Guidance Manual

The OASIS guidance manual set to take effect next year now is available, marking yet another step toward standardized collection of post-acute data and potential changes to the Medicare payment system. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on June 27 posted the OASIS-C2 Guidance Manual...

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CDC Releases 2017 ICD-10-CM Codes

Since the release of the 2017 ICD-10-PCS codes, the healthcare vendor community has been waiting with bated breath for the 2017 ICD-10-CM codes. Now they’re here. Those codes were just released on June 24, 2016 with the Index and...

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Good, Bad Trends in ICD-10 Coding Accuracy: Early 2016 Data Revealed

A recent data set gathered from 300 coders at 50 health systems was revealing with regard to ICD-10 coding accuracy thus far following the October 2015 implementation. The data exposed both good news and bad news for health information management (HIM) directors and coding managers...

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25 Most Common ICD-10 Diagnoses in 2016

The implementation of ICD-10 in October of 2015 created hundreds of new diagnostic categories that can be recorded in a patient’s chart. With nearly 30,000 active monthly practices on the Practice Fusion platform we can offer insight into trends in ambulatory care in the US. Our top diagnoses...

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