CMS and the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics released changes to the ICD-10-CM guidelines for fiscal year 2019. 1. The new guidelines apply to all hospital inpatient and outpatient coding ...
Results from a newly-released study heavily support the idea that Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator-use contributes to low mortality rates in patients suffering from heart failure. The ...
The World Health Organization today adopted a revision to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), and that includes for the first time “Gaming ...
In-hospital mortality for MV-ARDS improved in the ICD-9-CM era but worsened in the ICD-10-CM era, when a more stringent ARDS definition was used.