Why ICD-10 Is Not Just A Coding Project

Published: Mon, 01/27/14



Hi 
,

If you think ICD-10 is all about new codes, you are dead wrong. ICD-10 is really about "documentation" ─ we clinicians have learned from day one that, "If it's not documented, it wasn't done." This situation is even truer in the ICD-10 world, where the coder must build the ICD-10 code based on the presenting story of that patient's visit from admissions to discharge. With all the new code options, you never know what code will be built.

Read more...

http://medicalcodingnews.org/?p=2220

Sincerely,

Marci Miller


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