Crosswalk 5 Commonly Reported Family Practice Codes to ICD-10
Like a radio station counting down the top hits of the year over New Year’s Eve, SuperCoder’s blog is ringing out the old of ICD-9 with looks at some of the top diagnoses of ICD-9 and their...
View ArticleDon’t Let ICD-10 Codes Be a Pain for Pain Management
Pain! Providers and practices are feeling a lot of that as they prepare for the major code changes that ICD-10 is bringing, and pain management specialists are not immune. We’ve found a few good pain...
View ArticleWe’re Not Kidding — We’ve Got 5 Oft-Reported Pediatrics Diagnosis Codes For...
With just seven days left until the ICD-10 conversion, we continue our countdown of top coding hits today with pediatrics. Like family practice, peds pulls codes from all 21 chapters of ICD-10. Picking...
View ArticleCut Through the Excess With 5 Common General Surgery Codes
Diagnosis coding for general surgery spans multiple ICD-10 chapters because there is no chapter dedicated solely to general surgery in ICD-10. ICD-10 includes unspecified codes just like ICD-9 does,...
View ArticleKeep Your Eye on These Ophthalmology ICD-10 Code Changes
What’s the top change for ophthalmology coding in ICD-10? “Diseases of the Eye and Adnexa” get their own chapter! ICD-10-CM’s Chapter 7 separates ophthalmology from the diseases of the nervous system...
View ArticleGet a Gut Feeling About ICD-10 Code Changes With 5 Common Diagnoses
With fewer than three days left until the big ICD-10 conversion, we continue our countdown of diagnosis code hits! Today, we present five of the most reported gastroenterology ICD-10 codes. 1....
View ArticleGet the Scoop on 5 Commonly Reported Internal Medicine ICD-10 Codes
As was the case in family practice and pediatrics, the codes for internal medicine come from all over the ICD-10-CM book. With just two days remaining until the ICD-10 conversion (can you believe it?),...
View ArticleBone Up On Orthopedics With These 5 Top ICD-10 Codes
With just one more day until ICD-10 conversion day (it’s tomorrow!), today we’re tackling the specialty that takes up most of the space in ICD-10 — orthopedics. You’ll find most of the ortho codes in...
View ArticleWhat’s Your ICD-10 Game Plan?
Recently the news was released that CMS was going to replace the 30-year-old ICD-9 code set with ICD-10, and even though we have an October 1, 2013 deadline it is not too soon to start preparing....
View ArticleGet Your Latest ICD-10-CM Update
What’s new on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) website is the 2010 update of ICD-10-CM. This latest update replaces the 2009 release....
View ArticlePhysician's Practice: How Your Medical Practice Can Avoid ICD-10 Pitfalls
The upcoming ICD-10 changeover has most of us a little anxious as we wait for the final date for implementation and then the actual implementation. Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPMA, CPC-I, CGSC, COBGC,...
View ArticleFox News: Concerns Over ICD-10
ICD-10 implementation has been years in the making, and now that we’re finally at the finish line, concerns and misunderstandings are becoming more rampant. AAPC is working hard to clear up...
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