Katie Carolan, director of operations at Baltimore-based Health Record Services (HRS), spends a lot of time giving presentations at state American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) ...

MADIT-II enrolled 1232 patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI) (>= 1 month before entry) and LV ejection fraction (EF) <= 30%. [3] Patients were randomly assigned in a 3:2 ratio to receive ...

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Instead of capturing multiple components of a cardiac rhythm management device implantation with a single code, ICD-10 will force providers to code each component of the device system separately, ...

Not everyone is calling for the death of ICD-10 (in fact, few are). And according to The Advisory Board, the idea of waiting until ICD-11 as American Medical Association President Steve Stack ...

A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems that improve for most patients within a year after the device is inserted, ...

From 1993 to 2006, 481,976 sample records of primary PM implantation were identified, which corresponds to 2.4 million (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.28–2.50 million) patients with primary PM ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Like it or not, ICD-10-CM is here and an expanded and ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a list of new and invalid ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes, effective Oct. 1, according a report from the American Academy of Professional ...