New ICD-10 Codes Identify Chronic, Recurrent Conditions
Written by Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPMA, CPCI, CGSC, COBGG, CPED | Monday, 27 October 2014 00:00
EDITOR’S NOTE: Rhonda Buckholtz is scheduled to participate in a stakeholders’ national conference call being conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today on the topic, “The ICD-10 Code Set Increased –Why?” Excerpts are in the following article.ICD-10 has achieved much recent notoriety for its external cause codes. It’s fun to talk about those crazy codes, but they too often make for a shock-and-awe story that will derail the conversation about actual potential uses and benefits of ICD-10.
The bottom line is that most of us will never have to utilize those codes. And while I can make a case on how the use of ICD-10 could potentially save us tons of money in administrative costs and burdens for both the provider and the health plan (not to mention the patient, in cases of injury), there are other ways we can benefit as well.
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