U.S. Care Delivery Organizations Should Use These Steps to Prepare for ICD-10

ID Number: G00154800

1 February 2008

Wes Rishel

ICD-9 is a fundamental underpinning for U.S. CDOs in obtaining payment, negotiating with health plans, achieving quantitative market planning and measuring quality. The change to ICD-10 will improve all of this in the long term, but the transition will be a crisis. Here is how to handle it best.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Introduction

1.1

Background

2.0

Assessing the Impact on CDOs

2.1

Ubiquity of ICD-9

3.0

Key Questions

4.0

Recommended CDO Actions

Recommended Reading

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Use of ICD-9 Codes in the Four Major Healthcare Processes of a CDO

HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets
Clinical and Business Optimization

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