Physicians and other healthcare professionals will have to employ much more accurate and specific documentation of their care if ICD-10 coding is to work right, speakers asserted in an education ...
The number of diagnosis codes has expanded from 13,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10 codes, with 78 percent of ICD-9 diagnosis codes mapping 1-to-1 with an ICD-10 code, either exactly or approximately.
Atlanta-based health IT solutions company Jvion recently released a whitepaper and detailed the biggest ICD-10 lessons practices should learn for documentation success, according to an HIT Consultant ...
Healthcare system managers know that the hardest part of moving to ICD-10 will be training physicians to document their work in ways that facilitate appropriate coding. Physicians are not necessarily ...
Most providers associate clinical documentation improvement (CDI) with the transition to ICD-10 coding, however, CDI - a process in which care providers receive feedback from specialists who review ...
In a recent ICD-10 pilot project, healthcare coders were accurate only 63 percent of the time, on average, in their documentation from medical records. In addition, coders averaged two medical records ...
In April, the HHS announced that it was delaying CMS’ implementation of ICD-10. Oct. 1, 2014 was no longer the “go live” date. The delay came as a surprise to many in the healthcare community.
Whereas ICD-10 invariably gets its share of attention, technologies ancillary to the code conversion but likely to prove at least as transformative are also along for the ride. Take clinical ...
launched its newest generation of coding technology. Optum Enterprise CAC, a computer-assisted coding (CAC) platform, helps hospitals accelerate their transition to ICD-10, increase productivity and ...
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHIMA CONFERENCE – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) announced that it has acquired J.A. Thomas and Associates (JATA), the nation’s premier provider of ...
For the past few years, providers have been shaking in their boots at the prospect of meeting the upcoming ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion deadline. It is, after all, a pretty sizable project, demanding ...
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHIMA CONFERENCE – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) announced that it has acquired J.A. Thomas and Associates (JATA), the nation’s premier provider of ...