Mental Health and e-Health News Bits

Running a mental health practice or community organization is a demanding endeavor and probably gets in the way of reading some of the huge volumes of info out there. I just thought I would share some quick bits and pieces of information you might find useful. 1.   ICD-10 Update: Last October 31, I posted information about an October 2011 [...]

Posted Under: Behavioral healthcare,General healthcare
This post was written by Kathy on March 3, 2009 Comments (0)

Mental Health Billing and the ICD-10

Back in August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted a proposed rule requiring the implementation of the portion of HIPAA that mandates use of the ICD-10 by October 2011. The International Classification of Diseases-10 was endorsed by the 43rd World Health Assembly in 1990 and was implemented by many World Health [...]

Posted Under: Behavioral healthcare,General healthcare
This post was written by Kathy on October 31, 2008 Comments (9)