What the ICD-10 transition means for cancer programs | The Advisory Board Company
11:00 AM on November 14, 2014 by Lindsay Conway
The countdown has begun. We are now less than one year away from CMS’s deadline for provider compliance with ICD-10. Fortunately U.S. health care organizations have been preparing for ICD-10 for years—but there’s still work to be done.
The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will increase the number of codes from less than 20,000 to over 72,000, and it promises to increase the specificity of coding for diagnoses and procedures. The tradeoff is that it will also require increased documentation specificity by physicians and increase the difficulty of coding and billing.
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