How PAs Can Help Implement the ICD-10 From PA blogger Steve Hanson: Like it or not, modern medicine is increasingly becoming a data-driven machine. And, practice and inpatient revenue is increasingly being tied to the data as well as the success of outcomes. Documentation is everything in ensuring that we get reimbursed appropriately for the work that we do. This significant shift in the practice of medicine falls especially hard on the practitioners who graduated more than 20 years ago. The current system for documenting disease and diagnoses, ICD-9, was implemented in 1979. A lot has changed since then. The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes is rapidly approaching. On Oct. 1, 2014, we will be required to implement ICD-10. The current system is more than 35 years old and does not provide for the level of detail that the new health care system requires be collected. Read more at ow.ly/rIYwi. PA Steve Hanson blogs regular contributor to Physicians Practice. He is a past president of AAPA.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 23:01:14 +0000
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