DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2015 Issue 10 (October)
Get a leg up on ICD-10 with a practice-specific, quick-glance guide
Create a coding shortcut to get your staff cranking out accurate ICD-10 codes in no time.
Leading up to the ICD-10 launch date, one physician practice in Jacksonville, Fla., constructed a list of its 25 most common diagnoses. The list includes an ICD-9 to ICD-10 crosswalk and a description of the diagnosis to make it easy for the staff – from physicians to billing professionals – to pinpoint the correct code.
Staff physicians and medical assistants were "extremely happy" to have the quick reference guides, says Tina Allen, CPC, billing manager at First Coast Mohs Skin Cancer & Reconstructive Surgery, who spearheaded the program.
"[The launch date] went by with no problems," recounts Allen about the historic Oct. 1 date on which ICD-10 debuted. Allen created the reference guide in a spreadsheet and then distributed a printed copy to her staff.
If you haven't created a quick-look guide yet, simply pull together your most common diagnoses, ascertain the crosswalk (using your go-to coding tool, such as SelectCoder), and get it into the hands of your staff. If your practice is like Allen's, they'll be thanking you in no time.
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