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Hi ,
In the past six months, hospitals have considerably increased their
internal training efforts in preparation for the transition to
ICD-10, according to a survey conducted by the consulting firm
Health Revenue Assurance Associates.
The transition from the ICD-9 code sets used to report medical
diagnoses and inpatient procedures to ICD-10 is required for
everyone covered by HIPAA starting Oct. 1, 2014. The HRAA survey --
a follow-up to industry research HRAA conducted in April -- found 78
percent of hospitals have begun ICD-10-CM training and 64 percent
have started ICD-10-PCS training for their coding staff, up from 60
percent and 45 percent, respectively, in April.
Read more...
http://medicalcodingnews.org/?p=2077
Sincerely,
Marci Miller
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