While the changes in ICD-10 has more to offer but the challenges that exists are worth the effort. The providers and the coders too will need to comprehend the new…
By the time you put away your Christmas decorations at the end of 2013, you should be breaking out the ICD-10 workbooks for your physicians. According to the recommended CMS…
When Cindy Seel asked the crowd at AHIMA's annual convention what the shared goal for Oct. 1, 2014 should be, the response was predictable: Survive. “The ICD-10 PCS is going…
Medical coders certainly have their work cut out for them ahead of the ICD-10 transition if the results of the ICD-10 National Pilot Program hold true across the majority of…
Now that the ICD-10 transition is roughly a year away, it is vital for HIM directors, CFOs, CIOs and other healthcare leaders to understand not only how it will affect…
The exhibition floor at American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) 2013 convention comprises a mixture of emotions. On the one hand, this year marks the 85th year of the association’s…
Charlene Webber-Schuss, chief information officer at Community Hospital on California's Monterey Peninsula, faces two major problems in negotiating the gargantuan shift to ICD-10 coding, now less than a year away.…
Medical coders participating in an ICD-10 coding pilot produced accurate coding using the complex new system less than two-thirds of the time, according to a report by two healthcare IT…
More bad news on the ICD-10 implementation front. The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA) have conducted two rounds of end-to-end ICD-10 testing. How to describe the results?…
Is there a glimmer of hope on the ICD-10 horizon? October’s preparedness survey conducted by Health Revenue Assurance Holdings (HRAA) seems to indicate that providers are making some progress towards…
In the past six months, hospitals have considerably increased their internal training efforts in preparation for the transition to ICD-10, according to a survey conducted by the consulting firm Health…
Before you know it, the ICD-10 go-live date of October 2014 will be here, and for those 55 percent of physicians who have yet to begin implementation, it's looking like…
The deadline for transitioning to the ICD-10 code sets is October 1, 2014, yet recent surveys have found that many medical groups have not conducted impact assessments, implemented needed technology…
By many accounts, large tech-savvy healthcare providers are thus far the most prepared for the ICD-10 conversion. So what can the rest learn from their ICD-10 headway? There are three…
CMS is moving forward with the switch to ICD-10 whether you're ready or not, and it won't test the system before putting your revenue at risk. That decision to go…
Come the first week of October next year, the number of codes to document, say, an angioplasty will go from one to 854. The number of pressure ulcer codes will…