Item 1310 ISBN  1-56337-899-X $80 $64 SOLD OUT! Prepare now for ICD-10 implementation.

Ingenix University: Implementing ICD-10 is a one-of-a kind narrative reference to help you understand the historical, medical, and statistical reasons why ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS were developed. The 2007 edition is updated with current proposed code sets.

• New! 2007 edition updated with NCHS’s final draft of ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS and the latest implementation timeline.
• Exclusive—Implementation issues. Learn how to prepare information systems and other departments at your facility for the coming code changes, and how to budget for the impact.
• Exclusive—Documentation list. Review our detailed list to learn which diagnoses will require more documentation under ICD-10-CM than they do under ICD-9-CM.
• Exclusive—Procedural coding systems. Learn about the characteristics and complexities of CPT® and ICD-10-PCS in our chapter on procedural coding systems.
• Exclusive—Outline of changes. Examine each chapter of ICD-9-CM and discover how it will change under ICD-10-CM. Learn how the federal government’s clinical modifications will affect you.
• Exclusive—Information systems issues. Learn how to implement systems that differentiate between the numbers 1 and 0 and the alphabetic I and O and accommodate ICD-10-CM codes, which sometimes have six alphanumeric characters.