SALT LAKE CITY – As if upgrading the nation’s ICD-9 code set for diseases and treatment to ICD-10, with its many thousands more codes, were not enough of a challenge for health information managers at ...

Editor's note: For more on this topic, stay tuned for an upcoming Health Policy Brief update on transitioning to ICD-10. The on again, off again plans for ICD-10 code set implementation leaves many ...

WASHINGTON – Complex rehab technology (CRT) stakeholders were pleasantly surprised when CMS recently removed the ICD-10 ...

We’ve entered the ICD-10 homestretch, the few short weeks before health care stakeholders finally see the implementation of a transformative change nearly twenty years in the making. But go-live is ...

The US Senate has voted for a 1-year "doc fix" preventing a 24% pay cut for physicians who treat Medicare patients, while also delaying by 1 year the implementation of the nationwide conversion to the ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — A new observational study suggests being uninsured or underinsured may increase the risk for inappropriate shocks in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) [1 ...

"Appropriately selected patients with NICM have the potential to benefit from primary prevention ICD therapy…Besides consideration of ICD placement, attention to guideline-directed medical therapy and ...