The Academy of Professional Coders has announced a comprehensive, five-year ICD-10 training plan, which is intended to guide providers, payors and coders through the ICD-10 implementation process, ...

If there was an overall theme at the HIMSS Media/Healthcare IT News ICD-10 Forum June 17, it was this: Don’t wait to get your house in order for ICD-10. Though the Oct. 1, 2014 deadline for the ...

Implementation planning for ICD-10 should precede code set training because the planning process will take much longer, according to an AAPC report. Kim Reid, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I, director of ...

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.

The switch from coding set ICD-9 to ICD-10 has the potential to improve hospitals’ revenue cycle efficiency, coding accuracy and ability to track data, but only if done right. Hospitals need to ...

Healthcare providers probably will want to outsource their ICD-10 training to Goldilocks. They don't want to start training medical coders too late or they won't be able to code medical claims ...