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Evernorth: Behavioral health should shift to value-based care
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Modernizing healthcare payment systems starts with reducing cash collections
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Advocate Health closing Illinois clinics inside of Walgreens
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17 health systems invest in Truveta Genome Project
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Hospitals face rising costs as tariff uncertainty continues
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Ambulatory surgery centers drive Tenet's strong Q4 results
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Health system operating margins declined in August
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Senate report slams private equity's ownership of hospitals
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Revenue cycle challenged by low collection rates, high denials
Revenue cycle challenged by low collection rates, high denials
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Sen. Grassley wants UnitedHealth to hand over MA billing records
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Cedars-Sinai cancer director stepping down
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Chief growth officer on the competitiveness of home health market
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Healthcare chatbots may promote racist misinformation
Healthcare chatbots may promote racist misinformation
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Hospitals, physicians submit opposing views to FTC ruling on noncompetes
Hospitals, physicians submit opposing views to FTC ruling
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Prisma Health opens $3.7 million behavioral health facility
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CVS, FTC at odds over court order and timeline to produce PBM records
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Trump issues executive order on healthcare price transparency
Trump issues executive order on healthcare price transparency
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Mobile Healthcare does house calls
Mobile Healthcare does house calls
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HIMSS25 session shows how physicians are incentivized in alternative payment models
HIMSS25 session shows how physicians are incentivized in APMs
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SDOH, tech key to advancing value-based care, says UHG
SDOH, tech key to advancing value-based care
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Fewer clinicians entering primary care, data shows
Fewer clinicians entering primary care
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MultiCare partners with Tuva Health
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Cigna taps Virtell to lead supplemental health business
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Physician practices examine risk adjustment coding in wake of federal lawsuits
Practices keeping close watch on risk adjustment coding
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Financial disincentives for providers who commit information blocking 
Financial disincentives for providers who commit information blocking 
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AMA among organizations asking RFK Jr. to reschedule immunization meeting
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HHS, Illinois reach agreement on disability rights laws
HHS, Illinois reach agreement on disability rights
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PBMs appeal FTC case over insulin costs 
PBMs appeal FTC case over insulin costs 
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Obesity rates driving up healthcare costs, report finds
Obesity rates driving up healthcare costs
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UPMC for You partners to offer Medicaid redetermination coverage in laundromats
UPMC for You offers Medicaid redetermination coverage in laundromats
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Philips partners for maternal remote patient monitoring in Georgia
Philips partners for maternal remote patient monitoring in Georgia
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Yale New Haven calls Prospect deal 'impossible'
Yale New Haven calls Prospect deal 'impossible'
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Jul 25, 2013

Top 8 zaniest ICD-10 codes

Erin McCann

The next time you suffer asphyxiation as a result of your encasement in a discarded refrigerator, your care providers will know exactly which ICD-10 code to use. 

This infographic first appeared in the Healthcare IT News and Healthcare Finance News eSupplement, ICD-10 Compliance and Beyond: Completing the Journey.

[See also: How much emergency cash should providers keep for ICD-10?]

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