The ICD-10 medical coding is getting implemented today and implementation date is here and now there is no way of avoiding it. From today on physicians and hospitals across the country will have to start using the new medical coding system to describe patient visits...
According to a survey of 650 hospital technology and physician leaders published in July 2014 by Black Book, hospitals are increasingly undertaking clinical documentation improvement initiatives in the wake of ICD-10 implementation due on October 1, 2015 and they are...
Healthcare providers, insurance payers and vendors aren’t the only entities that are affected by the unexpected ICD-10 delay of more than a year. Delay in implementing this coding system is detrimental also for students pursuing health information management...