Physicians know the change to ICD-10 coding on Oct. 1 is going to radically change how they input diagnostic and billing codes. That's mostly due to the number of codes swelling by thousands compared ...

Instead of capturing multiple components of a cardiac rhythm management device implantation with a single code, ICD-10 will force providers to code each component of the device system separately, ...

CMS attempts to answer some of those questions in a new video, “Coding for ICD-10-CM: More of the Basics,” that reviews basic information over the new coding system set to be integrated October 2015.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Long-term CRT-D use was tied to improved survival and time to adverse events vs. ICD therapy in patients with ...

Looking at a large cohort of patients undergoing various types of open heart surgery, investigators have provided contemporary data that can be used to inform patients about the risks of cardiac ...

And of course, add another code to describe the stage of the chronic kidney disease. A coder may assume a causal relationship between hypertension and chronic kidney disease, but may not assume a ...

PARIS — The survival benefits of primary-prevention device therapy seen in seminal trials reported in the early 2000s still apply today, suggests a registry study from Sweden that also saw gross ...

ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014, and will require health care organizations to switch from the soon-to-be outdated ICD-9. Srividya ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine have discovered that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) -- electric monitoring devices that deliver a ...