With the clock ticking down to the Oct. 1 deadline to transition to the ICD-10 dataset, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has introduced a new tool to help providers succeed with the transition.

More than half of healthcare organizations are not yet ready for the Oct. 1 ICD-10 transition, according to a new survey.

William Rogers, MD, director of the Physicians Regulatory Issues Team at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has been named ICD-10 ombudsman.

With just over a month to go until the Oct. 1 ICD-10 deadline, the American Hospital Association has released a checklist of key steps that hospitals should take to ensure a successful transition.

 Xerox’s (NYSE: XRX) Health Enterprise platform, a next-generation Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS), has received full federal certification in New Hampshire. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—June 3, 2015—To help hospital organizations and physician practices convert systems, reports and records into the language of ICD-10, 3M has released a new version of the 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool, which has been expanded to include Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) and other HCPCS codes.

By some estimates, healthcare is only responsible for 10 percent of the factors related to longevity; the rest is dependent on genetics, socioeconomic circumstances and healthy habits. That means care alone is inadequate, and public policy should change to reflect that reality, a health policy expert contends.

San Diego, California, September 26, 2014 -- The number of outsourced coding and revenue cycle management initiatives have doubled over a years’ time as the number of hospitals confront the challenges of implementing suitable solutions before the 2015 ICD-10 deadline, according to the recently published Black Book™ surveys of hospital technology and physician leaders.