The PAWSIC Skin Failure Codes Position Paper (PSFCPP), Version 1.1, published September 30, 2026, explains why skin failure ...
You can prevent costly claims denials by following these guidelines. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued instructions clarifying current diagnosis coding guidelines for ...
In “Seven Tips to Improve Your ICD-9 Coding for Diagnostic Tests” [Getting Paid, February 2002, page 16], you advise reporting unrelated and coexisting conditions/diagnoses as secondary diagnoses, for ...
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the use of U09.9, an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) code ...
Gulf War illness (GWI), the chronic, debilitating condition linked to military service in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, will receive a dedicated diagnostic code in the October 2025 release of the ...
Colonoscopy billing can be very complex, hinging on distinctions between screening and diagnostic intent. A single ICD-10 code, CPT selection or missing modifier can shift a procedure from fully ...
Some research suggests that risk adjustment plays a substantial role in explaining the high levels of government spending on Medicare Advantage (MA). We studied whether the reliance on diagnosis codes ...
The authors updated a diagnosis list to identify low-acuity emergency department visits by veterans and applied it to examine trends and predictors of veterans’ low-acuity utilization. Objectives: ...
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