The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has added several new oral health billing codes for Medicare, and one U.S. legislator wants states notified so they consider making similar ...

Code W56.41XA, for example, means a patient was bitten by a shark. The older system, ICD-9, listed about 14,000 ailments. Though upgrading to ICD-10 was a priority, Medicaid claims older than 365 days ...

Medical advances require highly trained researchers, years of review and new Medicaid billing codes. Until a code is developed for a procedure and entered into the state's computer system, doctors ...