Initial ICD-10 Adoption Shows Difficulties Less Extensive

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Initial ICD-10 Adoption Shows Difficulties Less Extensive

Post by Gavin Walker » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:28 am

Excellent updated on the coding front: With more than half its coders now handling ICD-10 diagnosis codes on a day-to-day basis, McKesson Business Performance Services (McKesson) has discovered that the acute documentation and efficiency difficulties many dreaded would overpower the ICD-10 changeover have not appeared. According to Cindy Slocum, McKesson's project manager for ICD-10 execution, “Basically what we’ve discovered is that if you can code the clinical document in ICD-9, there is an extremely high probability that you’ll be able to code in ICD-10. Clean claims are going out with the appropriate diagnosis codes, and that’s a huge relief for a lot of people.”
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