ICD 9 to ICD 10 — The Future of ICD 10 скачать в хорошем качестве

ICD 9 to ICD 10 — The Future of ICD 10

ICD 9 to ICD 10 — The Future of ICD 10 https://www.cco.us/icd-10-coding-trai... The future of ICD 10. I know that everybody gets really nervous when they hear about ICD 9 to ICD-10. Actually, if you're a student now, I think it should kind of exciting because you're right at the beginning of history, I guess, if you could say it. But two things, there's going to be a lot of people that are coders or have been a coder for a long time. And you know, sometimes, you don't stop coding until you die because it's something that you can keep going. Well, ICD-10 is going to change all that. Some people are going to say, "You know what? I think I'll retire. I don't want to learn something new." So for all of you new coders, this is really a great time for you to get in to coding. But it's not going to be so scary. When you should start to study for ICD 9 to ICD-10? Is there anything I can do now to get ready or should I wait for everything to switch over? What I would tell you is start getting used to relearning your A&P and your terminology. What ICD-10 actually has done is they... one of the ways they made it easier for the coder is they expanded the description. So if you had one code for a procedure, say, a fracture of the femur and so you would say fracture of the femur, open or closed. Well you know, so you would have one... two code choices. Now you're going to have maybe 4 or 5 or more because they're going to say fracture of the femur, open or closed, medial, distal... you know the little protrusions or the bones off the little... curves off the top... into the femur that looks like little balls? Those have a name and I can't remember off the top of my head what they are. But they... if that is... if it's close to that or that part of the femur is broken, it's going to be labeled that whereas before, you had two choices, fractured femur open and closed. So your doctor is going to document better or they'll tell you that where the fracture is and you'll be able to specifically show where that fracture is with your ICD-10 code. MORE.... That second question, I want to know what are my options for learning ICD-10? That does not require going to college. Well, you don't have to go to college to be a coder which is kind of a great job to have for not having a degree, if you choose to go that way. You can make real good money but college does, of course, help you sometimes. They give you the anatomy and the physiology and stuff like that included. But there's courses and like what we have here at CCO that you can actually learn ICD-10. There's some books out there that you can get, that you can learn on your own if you're already a coder. That might help you if you're diligent enough to do it on your own. If you're not, you know, take a course. But you don't have to go to college to learn how to do ICD-10. Do you think people can self-teach for themselves? Again, yes you can but there's several helpful things out there on the web that if you really want to know the answer now, I would plan on taking a course. You don't have to go to college but you need to take a course. Once people learn about ICD-10, do they have to retake any medical coding certification exams with AHIMA or the AAPC? Yes, you do. With the AAPC, if you are an ICD... if you're certified in ICD-9, when it switches over in October of 2014, you have 2 years to take another exam which, I think, off the top of my head, I think it's 60 questions and it's online. It's not very expensive. I don't know, I can't remember again. I think it's like $60 to take that. There's a link Laureen's putting up now. It's at the bottom. It tells you, to the very bottom of that page, that was the link. It's a very long page too that will tell you what AHIMA requires. Oh excuse me, no. This is the AAPC, what they require. And again, it's not really going to be intimidating at all for you. I would suggest though, if you're thinking about getting certified, do it before ICD-10 because everybody's going to be nervous and just get it out of the way. I think it's a little further down. Boyd: And Pansie is asking in the question box here, "When are we going to see ICD-10 on a test? Did you say October 2014?" Alicia: Yes, October 2014 is the official switch from ICD 9 to ICD 10 .... Get more ICD 10 training, ICD 10 tutorial, ICD 9 to ICD 10 tips, medical coding certification and free medical coding webinars at https://www.cco.us/