With the implementation of ICD-10, the number of diagnostic codes increased from 13,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10 codes. The influx of codes brought a lot of apprehension, and many providers were ...

Nonprofit conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation also believes ICD-10 should be delayed, adding its voice to growing opposition against the scheduled Oct. 1 rollout of the diagnostic coding ...

The Academy of Professional Coders has announced a comprehensive, five-year ICD-10 training plan, which is intended to guide providers, payors and coders through the ICD-10 implementation process, ...

A CMS-developed ICD-10-CM course, available through CITI Program's training platform, helps non-coders improve ...

Clinical coding is the task of transforming medical information in a patient’s health records into structured codes so that they can be used for statistical analysis. This is a cognitive and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) have found a highly promising application in automated clinical coding (ACC), an innovation that will have profound impacts on the ...