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 sight of the benefits that the new code set will bring to medicine starting on October 1, 2014. Here are a few good things to remind yourself that ICD-10 is a step forward, no matter how difficult the implementation might seem right now.
