Debbi Meisner, vice president of regulatory compliance for Emdeon, discusses three challenges every hospital should be discussing in preparation for ICD-10. 1. System upgrades. According to Ms.
The delay in implementing ICD-10 may give providers some breathing room, but they still need to address the challenges of changing their electronic health records to handle the upgraded coding, ...
Since ICD-10 implementation affects almost every department in a medical practice or hospital, it's fair to say that it's more than a medical coding problem. There are plenty of challenges to tackle ...
Steve Claypool, MD, is vice president of clinical development and informatics, and Allison Errickson, CPC-H, is director of coding compliance and content, Clinical Solutions Division, for ProVation ...
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 ...
Many physicians deal with patients' injuries, ranging from tick removal by a primary care physician to a broken leg treated by an emergency department physician or the injuries and wounds of varying ...
Timothy Meakem, MD, the medical director of ProVation Medical, recently gave a webinar presentation titled “Utilizing Procedure Documentation to Overcome the Challenges of ICD-10 and RAC.” ProVation ...