Carl Natale
I don't mean to pick on healthcare IT vendors, but they're going to be in for some tough criticism in 2014, according to the results of a Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange ICD-10 survey.
Dual coding is probably the best idea to support the ICD-10 transition that many healthcare providers may not be able to afford. Here's why.
"This is only a test" is one of those phrases meant to put people at ease. But when it comes to ICD-10 testing, maybe healthcare providers shouldn't be at ease.
If hospitals and health systems do not get buy-in from their physicians, the ICD-10 transition may be hazardous to the health of the organization. Here are five tactics that will help.
While estimating the cost of an ICD-10 transition may be scary, medical practices should perhaps be more worried about what could happen to revenue.
For the most part, the largest U.S. healthcare providers have been very organized and prepared for ICD-10 implementation. Is there anything we can learn from their experience?
The ICD-10 transition is a wonderful opportunity for collaboration. More accurately, collaboration is a necessity.
Someone in your medical practice needs to take charge of the ICD-10 transition. Why can't that someone be you?
A basic change coming to diagnosis coding is that ICD-10 codes will be made of numerals and letters. Which means healthcare documentation and billing software will need a total rewrite.
You could put off communicating with your healthcare payers until you submit your first ICD-10 coded claim Oct. 1, 2014. What could go wrong?