National Medical Billing Services Senior Vice President, Coding Angela Talton, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPC-H, discussed how ambulatory surgery centers can prepare for the transition to ICD-10 in a ...

ICD-10-CM codes must be submitted to the payer in order for a health care provider to receive reimbursement for medical services.

She says eventually some practices may be able to save time with ICD-10, especially if they code the same diagnoses very frequently, but initially the change will cut into productivity. 6.

Ms. Richmond says while coders should not depend on general equivalency mappings to code ICD-10 going forward, GEMs will be useful as coders prepare for training in 2012 and 2013. She says the huge ...

Post misleads on medical codes Medical experts told USA TODAY the post exaggerates the use of ICD-10 medical codes by health care professionals and other entities.

The use of ICD-10 diagnosis codes in dental practice is still in the infancy period, according to Dr. David DePorter. However, the growing use is directly related to increases in government-related ...