With the expected integration of ICD 10 and billing/payment do you think AC will be smart enough to know all the parameters i.e. L,R, initial, ongoing, improving, resolved etc., my hope is that it will not be the elephant in the room and for outpatient care we can use a 'core' group of codes however how integrated the payer side is will determine how we do or don't get paid, sorry just rambling some insecurities of mine.
For anyone that is in a situation in which every dX inside the chart must be coded before sign off I think that with the current AC dX search window, finding the right ICD-10 codes will take longer and cause annoyances. A search window makeover might make things better. Or, it might be necessary to learn the coding system (ie memorizing categories of codes and how extra characters specify certain details).
TMA released this on their website.
http://www.texmed.org/template.aspx?id=30111Projected costs for ICD-10 transition triple.
Don't know what calculation methodology they used but the numbers seem high.
