NueMD launched the ICD-10 Training Lab, an online tool that helps healthcare professionals get ready for the ICD-10 transition. 1. The tool has a robust code search as well as numerous training games.

“These ICD-10 Anatomy and Pathophysiology modules are ideal for health care professionals needing to brush up on the subject before the ICD-10 implementation,” said Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPMA, CPCI, ...

When physicians who haven’t received ICD-10 training hear the upcoming conversion mentioned, you can see fear in their faces, says Joanna Lucas, ICD-10 committee chair and senior administrative ...

1. Ask outsourced coding vendors for documentation on ICD-10 transition plans. Many ASCs outsource their coding to third-party vendors, meaning surgery center leaders must speak to vendors about their ...

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, ...

Hospitals have more than two years to get ready for the switch from the ICD-9 to the ICD-10 diagnosis codes, which occurs on Oct. 1, 2013, but coding consultants are urging hospitals to already start ...

Unless there is another delay, the United States will transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in all health care settings on October 1, 2015. This will not be a gradual transition as there will be no grace ...