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 its own particular challenges ahead of October 1, 2014, coders face onerous task of completely reinventing themselves professionally while simultaneously shouldering the burden of keeping their employers’ revenue flowing. EHRintelligence spoke to Michelle Leavitt, Director of Courseware and Product Strategy at HealthcareSource, a leading human resources management vendor, to discuss some of the issues facing coders as they transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10.
