CMS and other insurers that incorporate HCC methodology into reimbursement will probably exclude codes that lack the relative degree of specificity achievable with many ICD-10 codes.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released 1,176 new ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for implementation on October 1.

WEDI is an industry group that closely follows the change in International Classification of Diseases Codes, or conversion to 140,000 codes under the new ICD-10 system from 17,000 in the current ...

Relative to the standard HCC model, models combining HCC scores with survey responses were more predictive of health care use, explaining 5.8–6.0 percent of individual variation in total price ...

With the transition to a new set of diagnosis codes well under way, it's never been more important for clinicians to accurately document their care to patients. Here's why.