Study shows how 'convoluted' ICD-10 transition can get
Date: May 07, 2013 How complicated the ICD-10 transition will be for your medical practice or hospital will depend on your specialty and case load.
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Examine your ICD-9 codes to start your ICD-10 assessment
Date: Dec 11, 2012
Maybe the most important step to planning your ICD-10 transition is to collect information on how ICD-9 codes are used.This means reviewing how and where you use ICD-9 codes now.
ICD-10 Assessment: Where do you use ICD-9 codes?
Date: Nov 22, 2012 At its heart, the impact assessment tells a medical practice what work will be affected by the ICD-10 transition and how it will change.
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Why there aren't as many ICD-10 codes as you think
Date: Nov 19, 2012 One of the biggest knocks on ICD-10 code set is the number of codes compared with the number of ICD-9 codes.
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Dual Coding: A burden or advantage for healthcare providers?
Date: Oct 25, 2012 The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) still isn't over the final rule on the ICD-10 implementation deadline.
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The problem with gathering more healthcare data
Date: Oct 19, 2012 One of the great promises of ICD-10 coding is the wealth of data it will create. That leads to two questions:
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Dual coding: Why you should be assigning ICD-10 codes ASAP
Date: Sep 17, 2012 ICD-10 training seems to be an exercise in optimal timing. Medical coders shouldn't learn ICD-10-CM/PCS coding too early or they will forget what the codes mean by Oct. 1, 2014.
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CMS considered 4 options for the ICD-10 deadline
Date: Aug 28, 2012 When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gathered public comment on the proposed rule to delay ICD-10 compliance, it considered four options.
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ICD-101: Yeah! There's a code for cheerleading
Date: Aug 27, 2012 Here's a round up of recent articles and posts on how to code diagnoses and procedures in ICD-10:
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Can you trust an EHR to accurately assign a medical code?
Date: Jul 09, 2012 If laughter is the best medicine, then the American Medical Association (AMA) is going to keep me very healthy.
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