Becker's Hospital Review

CMS Updates List of ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes Not Needing the Q0 HCPCS Modifier

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the list of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes that do not require either an HCPCS –QR or –Q0 modifier for implantable cardiac device services provided ...
Becker's ASC

HHS Proposes Replacing ICD-9 Code Sets for Diagnoses and Procedures

ICD-9 contains only 17,000 codes and is expected to start running out of available codes next year. By contrast, the ICD-10 code sets contain more than 155,000 codes and accommodate a host of new ...
Healio

ICD-9 coding

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Back to Healio During an internal chart review, the ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

eAPPENDIX 1. ICD-9 CODES USED FOR CLASSIFICATION OF COMORBIDITIES

Diabetes included both type I and type II and was defined as any occurrence of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition (ICD-9) diagnosis codes 250.xx, 357.2, 362.0x, or 366.41; ...
Business Wire

TYRX Announces New Medicare ICD-9 Code for the AIGISRx Antibacterial Envelope

MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TYRX ®, Inc. announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), through the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee, issued a new ...
Healio

RSV diagnosis via PCR did not match ICD-9 diagnosis codes

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Back to Healio Recent data show respiratory syncytial ...
Medscape

ICD-10 Transition: Smooth Sailing So Far, But Miles to Go

The new ICD-10 diagnostic codes that took effect on October 1 aroused the kind of fears one might feel reading the Book of Revelation. A seven-headed beast of a code set was going to wreak havoc on ...