HIM professionals have an increasingly important role in determining who can access protected health information (PHI), what information they can see, and how that access is monitored.
The fiscal year 2027 update to the ICD-10-CM code set includes new, deleted, and revised codes, as well as hundreds of changes to “Excludes” notes and “Code Also” indications. This code set was produced to show greater coding specificity by publishing codes with greater clinical specificity.
The American Medical Association (AMA) released the 2027 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, detailing 299 additions, 74 revisions, and 80 deletions set to take effect next year.
