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- Avoiding the biggest and most costly ICD-10 conversion challenges
- Integrating ICD-10, EHR Meaningful Use, & Accountable Care Organizations
- 8 steps to prepare for ICD-10 transition
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- Semantic Mapping for ICD-10-CM/PCS
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AMA Calls to Abandon ICD-10 Get Louder
On January 17th, 2012 the other shoe dropped. As I wrote in a prior article, the AMA’s laughable obstructionist November policy against ICD-10 was pure politics. Well, now the letter has gone out to the politicians making the required demand … Continue reading
ICD-10 Myths and Facts per CMS
In case you have not read it yet, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ICD-10 myths and facts sheet is quite a comprehensive two-page document that debunks a lot of myths concerning the inevitable coding system. The quick take home: … Continue reading
Reducing ICD-10 Training Costs
In a recent past post, I highlighted ways that physicians were reducing ICD-10 training costs by taking advantage of options that are being presented in collaborative ways. AHIMA published an article last year that suggests that hospitals may not be … Continue reading
Local Resources Available for ICD-10 Training
ICD-10 training prices are all over the map. If you are lucky enough to practice medicine in North Carolina, you can benefit from a partnership between the state chapter of the Health Information Management Association, NCHIMA, and the North Carolina … Continue reading
ICD-10 can Improve Patient Care While Improving Reimbursement
At the heart of any indifference or outright opposition to the United States converting to the ICD-10 system is a belief that the new system will not improve patient care enough to justify its implementation costs, both the one-time conversion … Continue reading
Avoiding the biggest and most costly ICD-10 conversion challenges
Ron Mills at 3M posted a small rant about providers possibly making the wrong decisions about what they really need for ICD-10 conversion. Key to his concerns is what role the General Equivalence Mappings, or GEMs, should play in a conversion … Continue reading
Integrating ICD-10, EHR Meaningful Use, & Accountable Care Organizations
In recent posts, I have highlighted the need to integrate ICD-10 conversion and electronic health records (EHR) meaningful use efforts. In this post, Dr. Joe Bormel discusses his take on this integration. He distinguishes between the functional nature of health … Continue reading
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8 steps to prepare for ICD-10 transition
With the clock running to the October 1, 2013 deadline, every healthcare provider practice should be planning, budgeting, and starting to implement their ICD-10 transition. While all providers will need to be ready to the ICD-10-CM diagnostic coding system, physician … Continue reading
CMS ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS Planning Video and Podcasts
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have made the 11/17/2011 national provider call into an ICD-10 implementation presentation available as a YouTube video slideshow presentation and a series of four downloadable podcasts. Podcast 1: Introduction, General ICD-10 Requirements, and CMS Implementation … Continue reading
Semantic Mapping for ICD-10-CM/PCS
Previous posts discussed that ICD-11 is going to be using an Internet platform and wiki-enabled collaboration, but this article on the Perficient site discusses that the Internet platform is actually the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is part of the goal of … Continue reading