“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Think the transition to ICD-10 is just learning a bunch (a real big bunch) of new codes? Think again. A session held Monday during MGMA-ACMPE’s annual conference in San Antonio laid out the impact of ...

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 ...