At the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 11, Deborah Grider, senior manager of revenue cycle at Blue and Co., discussed ICD-10 and what it means for healthcare organizations.

A key component of the partnership is ICD’s commitment to help arrange a Shariah-compliant syndicated or club financing facility of up to $900 million.

ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014, and will require health care organizations to switch from the soon-to-be outdated ICD-9. Srividya ...

Y2K came and went, and it was quite a letdown for the “gloom and doomers.” Amidst the hype, it seemed like Y2K would have a huge impact on many aspects of our daily lives, but the clock struck 12:01 ...

Unless there is another delay, the United States will transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in all health care settings on October 1, 2015. This will not be a gradual transition as there will be no grace ...

2. To me, any proposal that the United States consider adopting the ‘secret,’ paired down, 16,000 code WHO version of ICD-10 must first address the fact that the U.S. uses ICD-10-CM codes for billing ...

The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis, research ...

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 ...

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