DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2012 Issue 9 (September)

Don’t let provider motivation and coding prep lag because of 1-year ICD-10 delay

You probably couldn’t be happier to have another year to implement the ICD-10 diagnosis code set, but that extra time may add unnecessary expense and slow efforts to transition to the new code set. “A lot of people are now thinking it really isn’t going to happen, when I know it is,” says Vicki Cadenhead, CPC, ACS-CA, who codes for 16 doctors in four practices at Texas Health Physicians Group in Dallas.

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