ICD-10: Why Payers Must Embrace ICD-10 and How They Should Prepare ...

US healthcare and payer organizations must prepare to meet the demands of ICD-10. Begin realizing the benefits of the expanded classification structure today.

EMRs and ICD-10

The first rule adopts the ICD-10 medical data code sets standard for use in exchanging diagnoses and inpatient hospital procedures information replacing and greatly expanding the ICD-9-CM code sets, developed nearly 30 years ago ...

Disease Management Care Blog: ICD-10: A Win for Physicians, Care ...

While the mandated future implementation to ICD-10 from the current ICD-9 coding system has been equated with \'Y2K,\' the End Of Days, a planet killing asteroid or the return of certain Republicans to power in D.C., the DMCB has decided ...

Development of a validation algorithm for 'present on admission ... - BioMed Central

We undertook expert review of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM) to identify conditions that could not be plausibly hospital-acquired. The resulting computer algorithm was tested against ...

Dr. Alan F. Dowling Named AHIMA's Next Chief Executive Officer - Earthtimes

CHICAGO, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Health Information Management Association's Board of Directors today announced Alan F. Dowling, PhD, will be the next chief executive of the 55,000-member health information management (HIM ...

Dr. Alan F. Dowling Named AHIMA's Next Chief Executive Officer - PR Newswire (press release)

Dr. Alan F. Dowling Named AHIMA's Next Chief Executive OfficerPR Newswire (press release)Association activities -- and activism -- on matters such as recommendations for meaningful use, ICD-10 adoption, HIM workforce development, ...and more »

ICD 10 – dual processing issue

Provider contracts (among other things) are written using ICD and DRG codes. As a result of the increase in number of codes in ICD-10, a new set of DRG's will have to be created – to take advantage of the increased granularity of ...
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