The two most common challenges from healthcare organizations include: whether documentation is sufficient for the transition and how to integrate systems that will accept ICD-10 codes.

As doctors prepare for the change to ICD-10, it's helpful to know what the most commonly used primary care codes will now look like.

Why ICD-10 is necessary — 6 notes The impending Oct. 1 deadline has many healthcare professionals worried about potential billing errors as well as the threat of care of consistency. However, ICD-10 ...

The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis ...

The ICD-10 implementation date was delayed not once or twice, but three times. And during that delay, global plans to move forward to ICD-11 are already in the works.

Addison was part of an Orlando Health panel on ICD-10, organized by the College of Information Management Executives, at HIMSS11 last month. As she noted, ICD-9 consists of 17,500 codes, while ICD-10 ...

Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients ...

Medical practitioners can enter the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code "W17.9" to quickly register another fall from a milk crate.

Once again, proposed legislation that would block the ICD-10 conversion is back -- almost. Without the actual text, though, it's hard to speculate on its chances of passing the House and Senate.