What's New With ICD-10?
You may be wondering where I've been. Well, I've largely been off Twitter and the Coder Coach Facebook page and I obviously haven't been blogging. But like many other current coding professionals I've been very busy. For those of us preparing for ICD-10, it's being done in addition to our daily jobs. For me, that means switching hats between performing ICD-10 documentation reviews (I've coded over 300 records in ICD-10 so far!), writing training material, and presenting training to coders on ICD-9-CM and CPT subjects. I continue to chair the ICD-10 Task Force for the state of Colorado, although I now have a co-chair thanks to a very motivated and active task force. Last month we received "the announcement" that the ICD-10 implementation is going to be pushed back. But so far, it's still a guessing game on when that will be. I have folks from organizations and students from schools asking me what this means. And you may also be wondering, wh...