The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient’s complex symptoms, and a clinician’s efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous ...

The American Medical Association has released new medical codes for 2026 amid a growing debate about whether the medical group may have too much influence over the healthcare coding system. The AMA ...

Medical coders play a crucial role in the revenue cycle process, as they help ensure health systems, hospitals and physicians are properly reimbursed for the services they provide. Here are 14 things ...

A Feb. 16 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) makes a claim about the federal government's surveillance efforts. "The federal government is tracking the unvaccinated," reads the text featured ...

Not to complain, but the world we doctors inhabit is looking more and more like it was designed by Franz Kafka. The road to successful treatments and cures is cluttered with expanding red tape: ...

Let’s say you’re playing soccer. Your opponent gets mad, takes off one of her shoes and throws it at you, cleats first. There’s now a medical code for that. It’s called “W21.31XA: Struck by shoe ...

EXCLUSIVE — Doctors called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update medical codes to include side effects suffered by detransitioners. Miceli and his team at Do No Harm, which ...