The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced late last week that October 1, 2015, is officially the new transition date for the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) coding system in healthcare claims. 

Since the announcement of the ICD-10 delay earlier this year, many healthcare providers have questioned the need to continue spending on staff and physician training. Additionally, some questioned whether ICD-10 would be implemented at all, and the transition would simply be made to the ICD-11 coding. An article in the current issue of the Journal of AHIMA addresses some of the most common concerns surrounding ICD-10 and intends to dispel several misconceptions.

After a false start or two, CMS has set a final ICD-10 implementation deadline for October 1, 2015, as widely expected. 

Two of the nation’s most well-known healthcare organizations, Johns Hopkins Medicine and Kaiser Permanente, announced a strategic collaboration that joins one’s academic research and clinical capabilities with the other’s expertise in population health management.

PAWTUCKET, RI – Rhode Island Medical Imaging (RIMI) recently committed to being a Presenting Sponsor at the Free to Breathe Run/Walk on October 19th at Slater Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.  Free to Breathe is a non-profit organization dedicated to doubling lung cancer survival by 2022.  Proceeds from this event will help fund lung cancer research, as well as develop tools for lung cancer patients to help navigate their disease and treatment options.

 Outpatient diagnostic imaging services are coming to northeast Las Vegas residents for the first time with the opening of the new Desert Radiologists office on Monday, July 28. The $2.5 million, 8,000-square-foot facility is located at 31 N. Nellis Blvd. in the Charleston Commons Shopping Center. It will be the only imaging center east of I-15 and U.S. 95.

A recent study published in the journal Cancer concluded that patient anxiety associated with a false positive lung-cancer screening was no greater at one and six months post-screening than that of patients who received a negative result.

Politics may be local, but in the world of lobbying and campaign finance, money goes where it can have the most influence, which is why radiologists Milton Wolf, MD, and George Flinn, MD. will not receive support from RADPAC.