Understanding what the US spends to treat mental health and substance use disorders (SUD) is important for understanding spending patterns and informing health policy. In this study, we determined ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention heard from medical advocacy group Do No Harm on Tuesday on adding new medical codes for patient histories ...

Assistant HHS Secretary for Health Admiral Brian Christine pledged support to the detransitioner community who regret "gender-affirming care." ...

Congress should enact legislation to require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate transitioning to a single modern procedure coding system to eliminate excess costs and lower ...

The measure had little chance of consideration in the Senate, where it would need bipartisan support to move, but it reflected the priorities of the Republican majority. By Annie Karni and Aishvarya ...

Researchers have created a new online tool designed to help healthcare stakeholders successfully transition to ICD-10, according to an iHealthBeat report. The researchers created a bidirectional map ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yesterday that it would require the use of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10), set of diagnostic codes ...

The vast majority of attendees at the American Health Information Management Association’s ICD-10 summit in Washington, D.C., April 22-23, reported disappointment in the recent delay of the ICD-10 ...

The news that someone slipped a provision into the Sustainable Growth Rate patch legislation that will once again delay the transition to ICD-10 is disappointing, and symptomatic of the seemingly ...

Despite the rapidly approaching conversion date, recent surveys have shown many providers still have a lot of ground to cover before they’re prepared to take on ICD-10. Although transitioning to ...