Debbi Meisner, vice president of regulatory compliance for Emdeon, discusses three challenges every hospital should be discussing in preparation for ICD-10. 1. System upgrades. According to Ms.

Since ICD-10 implementation affects almost every department in a medical practice or hospital, it's fair to say that it's more than a medical coding problem. There are plenty of challenges to tackle ...

If any individual in the C-suite will feel the effects of ICD-10 most prominently, it will be the hospital CFO. As the organization’s financial manager, the CFO possesses an incredible amount of ...

Five top challenges of ICD-10 have been outlined by PatientKeeper, a data management system for physicians, at their User Group Conference for financial applications in Denver, Colo. The conference, ...

Steve Claypool, MD, is vice president of clinical development and informatics, and Allison Errickson, CPC-H, is director of coding compliance and content, Clinical Solutions Division, for ProVation ...

Healthcare system managers know that the hardest part of moving to ICD-10 will be training physicians to document their work in ways that facilitate appropriate coding. Physicians are not necessarily ...

Timothy Meakem, MD, the medical director of ProVation Medical, recently gave a webinar presentation titled “Utilizing Procedure Documentation to Overcome the Challenges of ICD-10 and RAC.” ProVation ...

The delay in implementing ICD-10 may give providers some breathing room, but they still need to address the challenges of changing their electronic health records to handle the upgraded coding, ...

Many physicians deal with patients' injuries, ranging from tick removal by a primary care physician to a broken leg treated by an emergency department physician or the injuries and wounds of varying ...