ICD-10 Brings Challenges, Opportunities To Medical Coders

There are three major components to the ICD-10 transition: physicians and their documentation, payers and their claims processing, and the medical coders that bridge the two.  While each group faces…

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ICD-10 Deadline Will Hold Steady

The cutoff for switching from the ICD-9 medical coding system to ICD-10 will remain Oct. 1, 2014, according to Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for healthcare IT, who delivered…

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New coding tool designed to help with ICD-10 transition

Worried about the transition from the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9), to ICD-10? A new Web site is designed to ease the process for you and other healthcare providers by…

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Rand Paul claims Obamacare will include diagnostic codes for injuries

In a little-noticed speech to the Iowa Republican Party this month, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul mocked President Obama's signature health care overhaul, noting the 122,000 new medical diagnostic codes…

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Switching To New ICD-10 Codes

University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have developed a website that walks healthcare providers through the challenging transition from the current International Classification of Diseases -- ICD-9 -- to the…

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Impact of ICD-10 on a Physician’s Practice

Why does my Practice need ICD-10? There is no room in the current ICD-9 structure for new diagnosis codes, or to re-classify existing codes. With the new ICD-10 structure, it…

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What to Expect From the New ICD-10-CM Medical Coding

With the ICD-10-CM implementation date on the horizon, there may be questions about this new medical coding system. Why is it needed? What are the changes? How will it affect…

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ICD-10 Preparations Continue to Lag

Despite a one-year delay, healthcare providers and payers are still lagging in preparing for the conversion to ICD-10 diagnostic and procedure codes. According to a survey by the Workgroup for…

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Five reasons you might actually like ICD-10

It’s too much work.  It’s too expensive.  It’s too confusing.  It’ll slow my coders down.  With all the fears, complaints, warnings, and dire predictions surrounding ICD-10, it’s easy to lose…

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