Physician practices must hustle to either retain or replace their professional coders as a new, more complex set of diagnostic codes called ICD-10 triggers a wave of retirements in that field, ...
Most experts agree that after the ICD-10 implementation date of Oct. 1, 2013, even well-trained coders will take longer with the new coding system than they did with ICD-9, according to a blog post ...
The transition to ICD-10 is already beginning to change the make-up of coding staffs. While ICD-9 coders, aka Niners, tended to be predominantly middle-aged women unready or unwilling to learn the new ...
It might be that IT or finance guys lead the ICD-10 charge, but there's little disputing who the foot soldiers are: medical coders. Indeed, coders will be the ones to put ICD-10 into practice on ...
Some critics of ICD-10 maintain that the medical industry should bypass the 22-year-old code set for ICD-11, but the older system may actually be more beneficial for providers, according to ICD10Watch ...
Nine years ago, Peter Esswein, a resident of Sandy Springs, Georgia, enrolled in a health information technology degree program at DeVry University to capitalize on the growing prominence of ...
More than one year after the ICD-10 go-live on Oct. 1, 2015, CMS has ended the ICD-10 claims auditing and quality reporting leniency period. Guidelines now require providers to code to reflect ...
For those well versed in ICD-9, learning ICD-10 may be akin to learning a second language. Many coders say their biggest fear about the new system that will take effect October 1, 2013 is that it ...
Diagnosis and treatment planning are arguably the centerpiece of dental practice. Quantifying and recording a patient's complete set of dental and medical diagnoses requires the use of a common coding ...
Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients and ...
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What you need to know about the codes healthcare providers use to classify slip-and-fall accidents
Earley Law Group reports how ICD-10 codes are used to classify slip-and-fall injuries for treatment, insurance, and liability ...
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