Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the recording ...

The new Medicare and Medicaid coding guidelines for office visits are a big deal. Ensuring that they benefit the people who need them is a bigger one. It is clearer now that the federal government and ...

Nursing homes have forced Medicare to realign its spending on patients with higher medical complexity, including those with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s disease and ...

In 2026, medical coding saw two defining changes: the addition of 288 CPT/HCPCS codes that formalize billing for emerging AI and digital health services, and an April ICD-10-CM update that overhauled ...

Medical coding is a key component of revenue cycle management. When done efficiently and accurately, it helps ensure hospitals are properly reimbursed for the services they provide. 1. AAPC, formerly ...

Minset today announced that mCoder, its autonomous medical coding system, has achieved state-of-the-art performance on MDACE, a leading public benchmark for explainable and verifiable automated ...

Medical coding professionals are entering a pivotal moment in 2026 as the industry grapples with the April 1 ICD-10-CM guideline updates and the most extensive CPT changes in recent memory, featuring ...

The American Health Information Management Association has outlined core clinical documentation guidelines for coding medical diagnoses and procedures in 2013 and 2014. In a new white paper, AHIMA ...

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 ...

The South African Health Informatics Association (SAHIA) will host its Clinical Coding Informatics Symposium on Wednesday, 1 October 2025, at the Melrose Surgical Centre in Johannesburg. This one-day ...