While ICD-10 migration can sometimes feel like a test to be graded, it’s more of a process to embrace in the name of better patient care. The ICD-10 deadline, despite its delay, is rapidly approaching and with it comes a number enterprise-wide changes. These changes, of course, include your clinical documentation - otherwise known as the key source of patient services. It also communicates why the patient in there in the first place. Clinical documentation affects three key parts of your organization: patient care, healthcare data and reimbursement. How can your organization harness clinical documentation improvement (CDI) to ensure optimization of ICD-10 utilization? We have six recommendations to consider.
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The 6 C’s of Clinical Documentation for Post ICD-10
Topics: clinical documentation, ICD-10, clinical documentation improvement, coding
ICD-10 Dual Coding: 5 Key Reasons to Keep on Schedule
The delay of ICD-10 has caused healthcare providers to re-evaluate the time and costs associated with planning and implementation efforts, including those devoted to dual-coding. President Obama signed the SGR bill (H.R. 4302) on April 1, 2014, effectively delaying ICD-10 until October 1, 2015 at the earliest. Many organizations were just getting their dual coding efforts underway and others were trying to give their coders at least six months of practice to minimize the impacts on productivity following the implementation of ICD-10.
Topics: CDI, clinical documentation, ICD-10, clinical documentation improvement, coding, delay, coder, budget, documentation