tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2011 Issue 17

ICD-10 Readiness: Start Small When Prepping for ICD-10 Conversion, CMS Says

Acquaint yourself with the top 30 diagnoses that your practice sees and you'll get a head start toward compliance. If you've taken a look at the ICD-10 book, you know that it would be virtually impossible to memorize all of the codes that it contains. But preparing for ICD-10 won't require you to even try to know the codes by heart, CMS reps indicated during the August 3 CMS call, "ICD-10 Implementation Strategies for Physicians."Take heart: Switching to ICD-10 will not require practitioners to learn new codesets -- in fact, most practitioners probably don't know many ICD-9 codes...

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