Ready or Not?

November 7, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Ready or Not?

A recent KLAS survey revealed that only 9% of respondents were more than halfway through their ICD-10 readiness preparations. This is a little disconcerting when you think about the timeline and the millions of dollars this could take for the large and some mid-size facilities.

Information Week Healthcare brought this to our attention in their article, “ICD-10 Madness: Most Providers Aren’t Ready.” The survey relied on 163 healthcare providers. Eighty-three percent said they are in the early stages of their preparation while 8% said they had not started at all.

The new ICD-10 classification system has five times more codes. Medical coding requires specialized expertise and systems tailored to the regulatory requirements in which health care providers, hospitals, and doctors deliver their services. Training staff is a key component of the transition.

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Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.