An ectopic pregnancy is reported using an ICD-10-CM code from category O00.- (ectopic pregnancy), which is divided into five subcategories. A version of this article was first published January 15, ...

As the medical billing and coding landscape grows increasingly complex, healthcare organizations struggle to keep pace with shifting regulatory guidelines, evolving coding standards, and the ...

Researchers compared billing codes from electronic health records to accurately quantify how many skin cancers patients had. Despite keratinocyte cancers being the most common malignant neoplasms ...

Rosalind Richmond, CCS, interim coding compliance officer for Genascis, Raemerie Jimenez, director of education for AAPC, and Cyndee Weston, CPC, CMC, CMRS, executive director of the American Medical ...

Revenue cycle management performance has never been more important. And recent advances in technology, particularly artificial intelligence, offer much potential for healthcare's administrative ...

The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient’s complex symptoms, and a clinician’s efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous ...

Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) addressed several misunderstandings around ICD-10 in its ICD-10-CM/PCS Myths and Facts guide. While CMS debunked some of the most ...

Workforce shortages, regulatory complexities and economic challenges have put hospitals and health systems under immense pressure to improve operational efficiency, accelerate payments and reduce ...