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Does anyone knwo about ICD-10 that is giong to effect in octoer 2013? what is it? new codes? same codes? do we have to do anything different?
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Current ICD-9 is between 12,000-13,000 codes. ICD-10 will got to about 69,000 codes that start with a letter and have up to 7 digits. The manual is being rewritten next year so don't waste money on it. There are good FREE downloads from from CMS that explains it. Looks crazy to start with but it actually makes some sense when you look at it further. My independent chart reviewer is great and spent about 1/2 hour with me on this as I asked her. The manual is 10,000 pages so don't try to print it. They have a conversion for current codes and have expanded some areas and condensed others (ex: HTN).
Solo practice has it's headaches but beats being an employee.
Steve Kennedy DO
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Steve:
Thanks. So that means that AC or other EMRs will have this in their systems or should if they want ot make their people happy?
And I would just search like I do now?
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Yes you should have a searchable database of codes. There will just be a whole lot more of them.
Solo practice has it's headaches but beats being an employee.
Steve Kennedy DO
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ICD 10 is used in Canada and much of Europe already. I have seen some of the documentation online, but do not know enough to give an intelligent conversation about it.
I will wait until I need to know. Guidelines, deadlines, and even the rules may change before it become effective.
I do know it is much more robust in description. I'm not sure if this is really a good thing. Time will tell.
Wendell
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The patient's expectation is that you have all the answers, sometimes they just don't like the answer you have for them
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Just another thing to make us use more time. . .last time i checked i spend more time with documenting and finding stuff then i do with my patients...what a joke!
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