The transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM on Oct. 1, 2013, will affect every step in the ASC surgical process. To prepare, surgery centers should start planning now — not just for transitioning their ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the National Center for Health Statistics have issued updated ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS guidelines for the latter half of fiscal year 2026. The release ...

Lolita Jones, RHIA, CSS, independent coding and billing consultant, discusses five ways ICD-10 will affect patient surgical encounters in an ambulatory surgery center. This article is the third ...

The extravascular implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) has a single lead implanted substernally to enable pause-prevention pacing, antitachycardia pacing, and defibrillation energy similar to ...

The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis, research ...