If you've ever been injured while falling or jumping from a burning water ski, been bitten by a sea lion, walked into a lamppost or just wounded yourself crocheting, the new code to report medical ...

NEW ORLEANS — Women and their doctors are concerned they could lose access to the latest types of reconstruction after breast cancer. That's because there's a proposed federal change in medical ...

“To the extent the right of access is a fundamental right, we have already determined that it does not extend to insurance conservations. A rational relationship clearly exists between the ...

Physicians who bill insurers or the federal government for their patients’ health care costs will become responsible this fall for incorporating almost 7,000 diagnostic code changes into their ...

Doctors now face penalties for incorrectly diagnosing maladies from among 68,000 insurance codes. Expect costs to rise, quality to decline. Not to complain, but the world we doctors inhabit is looking ...

What are the patterns of adoption of NAIC model insurance acts among the states, and what explains the differences in state response? This article provides an empirical analysis of these questions.

The Y2K of health insurance is coming. On October 1, 2015, the entire US healthcare system will switch over to the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases, which has, well, ...