The healthcare industry is no stranger to constant updates, especially when it comes to coding and billing. As medical knowledge advances, disease trends change, and the healthcare landscape evolves, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) update the 2024 ICD-10-CM Code set every year Healthcare providers, […]
Brain illness and injury, with a focus on dementia-related diagnoses, occupy a high volume of the 1,495 proposed changes to the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code set by CMS in the fiscal year (FY) 2023 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule. At the same time, CMS also introduced a minimal amount of new ICD-10-PCS procedure codes, […]