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ICD-10 Readiness:

Start Small When Prepping for ICD-10 Conversion, CMS Says

Published on Mon Aug 08, 2011

Acquaint yourself with the top 30 diagnoses that your practice sees and you'll get a head start toward compliance. If you've taken a look at the ICD-10 book, you know that it would be virtually impossible to memorize all of the codes that it contains. But preparing for ICD-10 won't require you to even try to know the codes by heart, CMS reps indicated during the August 3 CMS call, "ICD-10 Implementation Strategies for Physicians." Take heart: Switching to ICD-10 will not require practitioners to learn new codesets -- in fact, most practitioners probably don't know many ICD-9 codes by heart, so they won't be expected to memorize ICD-10 codes either, said Daniel Duvall, MD, medical officer with CMS's Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group, during the call. What do physicians need to do for the conversion? To prepare for ICD-10, doctors will need to look at the codes they use most [...]
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