ICD-10 mirrors Y2K; speculation and anxiety surrounding new changes and the unknown. Just like Y2K, we all survived without catastrophic meltdown.
Read MoreWhen the new coding guideline for clinical validation went into effect October 1, 2016, the stakes were raised higher for the diagnoses documented by the physician to be clearly and consistently demonstrated in the clinical documentation.
Read MoreThe 2017 ICD-10-CM is looking a bit more like ICD-9-CM thanks to the addition to some codes that were forgotten in the first release. As a heavy user of external cause codes and an ED coder at heart, I was so accustomed to using the E927 series that when ICD-10-CM came out I felt lost and forgotten. They may have forgotten the highly used code series; but fear not, they remembered them this year.
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