The following Q&A comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website.

While ICD-10 conversions can be highly automated, they will require manual review and evaluation, according to a report published in the Journal of AHIMA.

In a presentation at Premier healthcare alliance's Breakthroughs 2011 on June 16 in Orlando, Katie LeBlanc, senior director of revenue integrity for Catholic Healthcare West, and Kelley Blair, senior vice president of professional services at Craneware, Inc., discussed the importance…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved a waiver naming HMS, a subsidiary of HMS Holdings, the Medicaid recovery audit contractor for New York, according to a news release.

St. Peter's Hospital in Helena, Mont., hosted a public forum about medical billing issues to inform patients about the hospital's billing practices and elicit feedback, according to an Independent Record report.

At the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Code-a-thon on April 26, the American Academy of Professional Coders suggested 16 steps for successful implementation of ICD-10.

Understanding vendor readiness may help healthcare organizations transition to ICD-10, according to a VitalWare news release.  

PowerPoints from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Code-a-thon are now available on the CMS website.

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Audit review requests to Titus Regional Medical Center in Mount Pleasant, Texas, have greatly decreased, according to a Daily Tribune report.