Week in Review: Making sense of past ICD implementations & the attention to detail
Date: Sep 16, 2011 I really wanted to use this post to celebrate lessons from ICD implementations past. The week started on such a positive note.
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AHA touts ICD-10 coding book
Date: Mar 24, 2011 While many healthcare professionals are wondering when and how to get started with ICD-10, the American Hospital Association (AHA) shared details of a forthcoming revised edition book to help coders prepare for the mandated code sets.
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Breaking ICD-10 in two to tame it
Date: Jan 10, 2011 There's the clinical and then there's the non-clinical. They don't exactly align as a clean fifty-fifty split, but considering them as a two-phased approach can make ICD-10 simpler to learn.
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CMS, CDC call for ICD-9 and ICD-10 code freeze
Date: Mar 22, 2010 The epic healthcare bill passed by the House on Sunday might not make the ICD-10 conversion any easier, but a more simple suggestion by CMS could help.
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Health org's barely bulking up for ICD-10 -- yet
Date: Mar 19, 2010 Fewer than one in five healthcare organizations indicated intentions to hire more personnel for the ICD-10 conversion, which could have something to do with the fact that more than half of respondents to a different survey said they are “not adequately knowledgeable about ICD-10 or HIPAA 5010 requirements and implementation.”
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CMS offers basic intro to ICD-10-CM
Date: Mar 09, 2010 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will hold an informational call outlining ICD-10-CM in the coming weeks.
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