The International Classification of Diseases-10-Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is markedly more complex than the preceding ICD-9 system, which has increased the difficulty of identifying radical ...

Congress should recognize the enormous impact the ICD-10 would have on the medical profession and stop or delay its implementation.

The diagnostic ICD-10 codes currently used in HES cannot accurately differentiate between stages of PAD. Therefore, studies using HES to examine patterns of care and outcomes for patients with PAD are ...

The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) requires coding professionals to radically change their way of thinking when applying procedure codes as compared to ICD-9 (see Example 2).

You may have heard about the new ICD-10-CM diagnosis and procedure coding system. ICD-10 is the short name for the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, which was designed to ...

CMS has provided ICD-10 Procedure Coding System updates for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2019, and ending Sept. 30, 2020.