“Here at [redacted] we’ve decided to wait until next year to do anything more about ICD-10,” my friend and former colleague wrote in an email the other day. “The thinking is, why should we keep ...

Physician practices must hustle to either retain or replace their professional coders as a new, more complex set of diagnostic codes called ICD-10 triggers a wave of retirements in that field, ...

Kathy DeVault, manager of professional practice resources at AHIMA, encourages practices to begin training coders and billers now on ICD-10 because of the amount of codes to learn, according to EHR ...

The transition to ICD-10 is already beginning to change the make-up of coding staffs. While ICD-9 coders, aka Niners, tended to be predominantly middle-aged women unready or unwilling to learn the new ...

It might be that IT or finance guys lead the ICD-10 charge, but there's little disputing who the foot soldiers are: medical coders. Indeed, coders will be the ones to put ICD-10 into practice on ...

Before the healthcare industry reaches the ideal of automated computer assisted coding, human coders are going to be instrumental in the transition to ICD-10. The problem? There is a national shortage ...

Daniel Siegel, MD, discusses a loophole he looks out for in ICD-10 coding and billing.

Most experts agree that after the ICD-10 implementation date of Oct. 1, 2013, even well-trained coders will take longer with the new coding system than they did with ICD-9, according to a blog post ...