Curtis Dubay, recognized as a leading expert on taxation issues, is a former research fellow in tax and economic policy. The House of Representatives recently passed H.R 4302, a temporary "fix" to the ...

In the high-stakes battle over a new diagnosis and procedure coding system for the U.S. health care industry, hospitals are pitted against physicians, who are allied (gulp) with health insurers. This ...

Changes in how medical diagnoses are coded under the latest international disease classification system – better known as the ICD-10 codes – may complicate the assessment of hospital safety, say ...

Though it's still on the horizon, the anticipated change from the current ICD-9 Medicare physician and hospital billing code systems to ICD-10 could cost healthcare providers a hefty amount of money, ...

American health care has a love-hate relationship with the venerable International Classification of Diseases (ICD),” begins a commentary released yesterday as a Web First by Health Affairs. Since ...

Coders must be familiar with ICD-10-CM reporting guidelines for common neurological conditions. This article unpacks recent updates to the nervous system chapter of ICD-10-CM including 14 new codes ...

We’ve heard people give lots of reasons for opposing Obamacare. But until a reader sent us some Internet links recently, we hadn’t realized that one of the fears being spawned by Obamacare was that it ...

We created an annotated corpus of tumor morphology and topography mentions consisting of 1,101 documents. We combined it with the CANTEMIST corpus (Cancer Text Mining Shared Task). Specifically, we ...