ICD-10 Transition: How flexibility is going to help in the long run
Date: Oct 18, 2012 As you're planning your ICD-10 transition, there are some ways to make sure it goes much more smoothly.
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ICD-10 Timeline: Prepare for the financial impact with a budget
Date: Oct 15, 2012 The ICD-10 transition budget will help you assess how much ICD-10 implementation will cost. It's going to cover the resources needed for training, testing, compensating for decreased productivity and support implementation activities.
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ICD-101: Brush up on anatomy and physiology
Date: Oct 15, 2012 There's more to medical coding that memorizing ICD-10 codes. Medical coders will need to get more familiar with anatomy and physiology.
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Clinical Documentation: It's not just a burden created by ICD-10 implementation
Date: Oct 12, 2012 I didn't discuss the fears that electronic health records (EHRs) are being used as upcoding tools. My view was that upcoding would be a problem with CPT, ICD-9 and/or ICD-10-CM/PCS codes.
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CMS offers guidance on holding ICD-10 project meetings
Date: Oct 11, 2012 Regular meetings with your ICD-10 transition team can help make sure your project is on track.
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HIMSS takes the lead on making the ICD-10 transition more manageable
Date: Oct 10, 2012 A few weeks ago when I talked to Connie Tohara, director of Health Information at University of Utah Hospital, she emphasized the need to get information from the "right sources." There is too much money and hype pushing misinformation.
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ICD-10 Impact Assessment: Determine what's outside of your control
Date: Oct 08, 2012 The purpose of an impact assessment is to determine how ICD-10 implementation will affect a healthcare organization.
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HIMSS issues a call to action to help organizations achieve ICD-10 compliance
Date: Oct 08, 2012 The Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS) hopes to help the healthcare industry reach ICD-10 compliance as smoothly as
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ICD-101: Learn to use ICD-101 source files for ICD-10 training
Date: Oct 08, 2012 For the most part this series focuses on how to apply specific ICD-10 codes to diagnoses and procedures. Hopefully you're gaining a better understanding of how the ICD-10-CM/PCS code set works.
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ICD-10 Impact Assessment: Taking the first step to reaching implementation
Date: Oct 05, 2012 This week started out with the two-year countdown to ICD-10 implementation on Oct. 1, 2014. To mark the occasion, I modified an an eight-phase timeline created by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
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