Naysaying the Naysayers on the ICD-10 Rollout

  “The transition from ICD9s to ICD10s is going to be disastrous for healthcare!”  This was the statement heard so often for so long, that everyone in the industry was terrified about the transition from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes and overjoyed every time a...

10 Ridiculous ICD-10 Codes

ICD-10 went into effect in the United States on October 1, 2015. The primary difference from ICD-9 is the amount of specificity and granularity of conditions or situations which were given a code. In total, there are some 70,000 codes, which is up 500% from ICD-9...