Physicians and other healthcare professionals will have to employ much more accurate and specific documentation of their care if ICD-10 coding is to work right, speakers asserted in an education ...

Healthcare system managers know that the hardest part of moving to ICD-10 will be training physicians to document their work in ways that facilitate appropriate coding. Physicians are not necessarily ...

Most providers associate clinical documentation improvement (CDI) with the transition to ICD-10 coding, however, CDI - a process in which care providers receive feedback from specialists who review ...

The American Academy of Professional Coders has published an article providing guidance for the documentation needed to meet ICD-10 requirements. The article, titled “Documentation Crux of I-10 ...

3M Health Information Systems and Nuance Communications have announced a collaboration to develop a next generation, ICD-10-ready clinical documentation improvement solution. Powered by Nuance's ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHIMA CONFERENCE – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) announced that it has acquired J.A. Thomas and Associates (JATA), the nation’s premier provider of ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Healthcare reform, new compliance regulations, and the move to outcomes-based payment are putting pressure on clinical documentation and coding processes at hospitals ...

For the past few years, providers have been shaking in their boots at the prospect of meeting the upcoming ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion deadline. It is, after all, a pretty sizable project, demanding ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Nearly 65% of clinical documentation doesn't contain enough information for coders to use for billing under the upcoming ICD-10 coding system, a coding expert said here at the ...

On March 31, Congress passed a bill to address the sustainable growth rate for physician reimbursement, which also included language to delay the ICD-10 implementation date by at least one year. After ...

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 29, Yvonda Moore, director of implementation at GENASCIS, and Rosalind Richmond, interim coding compliance officer at ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHIMA CONFERENCE – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) announced that it has acquired J.A. Thomas and Associates (JATA), the nation’s premier provider of ...