A Senate health committee has sent the AMA another letter demanding details on how it maintains and licenses the CPT code set, building on a probe launched in October.

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 ...

This study determined that ICD-9 codes 433.X1, 434.XX, and V12.54 had positive predictive values >90%, and may be used to focus care on stroke patients. A total of 4689 patients with 10,376 unique ...

Sen. Cassidy says response to his earlier letter "was anything but open and transparent" ...