Physician practices must hustle to either retain or replace their professional coders as a new, more complex set of diagnostic codes called ICD-10 triggers a wave of retirements in that field, ...

Kathy DeVault, manager of professional practice resources at AHIMA, encourages practices to begin training coders and billers now on ICD-10 because of the amount of codes to learn, according to EHR ...

The April 2026 ICD-10-CM update may look small on paper, but its instructional and sequencing changes carry big implications for coding accuracy and reimbursement. Key shifts include converting many ...

The Academy of Professional Coders has announced a comprehensive, five-year ICD-10 training plan, which is intended to guide providers, payors and coders through the ICD-10 implementation process, ...

“Here at [redacted] we’ve decided to wait until next year to do anything more about ICD-10,” my friend and former colleague wrote in an email the other day. “The thinking is, why should we keep ...

The healthcare industry in Texas continues to expand. As the population ages, the need for medical services grows. Increasing medical services means higher demand for medical billers and coders who ...