Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A planned expansion of the National Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Registry, currently accruing data on ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator was noninferior to a transvenous ICD regarding major ...

Background: The use of health administrative data in health services research is facilitated by standardized classification systems, such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Canada, ...

On October 1, 2014, all health plans, health data clearinghouses, and health care providers that transmit health information electronically must use a new, significantly broader, coding system, called ...

ICD-9 contains only 17,000 codes and is expected to start running out of available codes next year. By contrast, the ICD-10 code sets contain more than 155,000 codes and accommodate a host of new ...

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, ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted with permission from Report on Medicare Compliance, an independent publication not affiliated with hospitals, government agencies, consultants or ...

The rate of major complications associated with cardiac implantable electronic-device (CIED) implantation varied widely among different centers in recent data from Australia and New Zealand. The rate ...