The day I delivered the fiscal year 2024 ICD-10-PCS update files to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for posting, it so happened that one of my favorite […]

As the world of coding is always evolving, there were no surprises with the announcement of ICD-11 (11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases). The newest revision of ICD […]

Thanks for reading the Inside Angle blog in 2022! As 2023 approaches, we invite you to revisit some of our most popular blogs of the year:  “The OIG and DOJ […]

The September ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) meeting held via Zoom Sept. 13 and 14 had a lopsided agenda—only four topics for proposed changes to the ICD-10-PCS procedure classification […]

The transition to ICD-11 is coming, and 3M HIS is here to help. We’ll debrief the major updates for you and provide an analysis of how the proposed changes could […]

The transition to ICD-11 is coming and 3M HIS is here to help. We’ll debrief the major updates for you and provide an analysis on how the proposed changes could […]

The transition to ICD-11 is coming and 3M HIS is here to help. We’ll debrief the major updates for you and provide an analysis on how the proposed changes could […]

The 34th Annual Patient Classification System International (PCSI) Conference was co-hosted by the Danish Health Data Authority, Nordic Casemix Centre and the Danish Regions organization. I attended it with two […]

Classification systems like ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS are all about trade-offs—balancing the ongoing need for new levels of detail with the increasing complexity of the classification. PCS has its own unique […]

I highly recommend watching Donna Pickett’s ICD-11 presentation, given at the September 12 morning session of the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) meeting in Baltimore. The link to the YouTube […]

Any Harry Potter fans out there? I recall a wedding scene in one of the last movies, when a disembodied voice whispers “They are coming, they are coming.” The wedding […]

You code your own doctor visits or procedures in your head during your visit, CPT and ICD. When talking to friends about medical issues, you review the possible ICD codes […]