inaccurate medical billing can be far greater than you might expect. According to the American Medical Association (AMA), medical billing errors can result in an average revenue loss of approximately 7% for physicians annually. For medical practitioners, this can result in thousands of dollars in ...
AMA Supports Bill Blocking ICD-10 Implementation ICD-10 stands for theInternational Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision. CMS is switching from ICD-9 to ICD-10 as part of the implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The se...
Doctors don’t treat according to a diagnostic code, but according to clinical situations. Data retrieval on a statistical mass level is going to be easier, but how does that translate into better patient treatment when billing takes longer? When looking into why ICD-10 has been put into ...
The International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10), has been widely used for the classification of patient diagnostic information. This classification is usually performed by dedicated physicians with specific coding training, and it is a laborious task. Automatic classification is a ch...
Public health decisions are made based on the ICD codes which are used to illustrate the patient and expanding disease registries [10]. The ICD is updated every ten years, and the current version is ICD-10. Many countries use the ICD as the basis for collecting death and disease statistics...