The below articles are all published in BC advantage
Magazine and written and contributed by Chuck
Buck
Chuck Buck Publisher
at ICD-10 Monitor
ICD-10 Codes as Historical Markers
ICD-10 is on its way. It may be off in the distance, a tiny speck of a locomotive's headlight for now, but ICD-10 is coming, gathering speed as it barrels toward the Oct. 1
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Going to School on ICD-10
When reading reports and surveys about America's healthcare system endeavoring to implement ICD-10 and the apparent disparity between large health systems that seem well on their way to implementation by the compliance date of October 2015 and the sm...
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ICD-10: The Big Timpano
The move by Congress to delay ICD-10 yet again brings to mind the plot of the critically acclaimed 1996 movie Big Night- a breakout piece for its stars, Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub.
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Curtain Rings Down on October 2014 ICD-10 Deadline
With the pretense of decorum and respectability, members of the second session of the 113th Congress milled about the U.S. House of Representatives floor the Thursday evening before last while the Clerk asked for a voice vote on a recommendation to e...
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National ICD-10 Readiness: One Year to Get it Right
ICD-10 is the lollapalooza of healthcare. It's the curtain going up on a Broadway premiere. It's the opening seconds of the worldwide telecast of The Oscars. It is the solid clank of the metal safety harness pressed hard against your legs on the Cycl...
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Warning Shot from HIMSS to CMS Raises Questions
Like a warning shot fired across the bow, news of a four-page letter from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to CMS Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner urging the agency to hold firm to the October 2014 ICD-10 complia...
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ICD-10: Decision Daze
Don't expect to see a dozen white satellite dishes atop network news trucks or protesters camped outside the entrance of the New Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. the administrative home of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) aw...
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U.S. Senator Calls for Congressional Hearings on ICD-10
In a white paper posted to his website, the senator writes that "congressional committees should hold hearings on ICD-10, evaluating the cost-benefit of this mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)." Coburn suggested that ...
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How Reading Tea Leaves Could Foretell that HHS Would Blink on ICD-10
For those who practice the medieval European practice of foretelling the future by reading tea leaves, the recent announcement that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will reexamine the timeline for the implementation of ICD-10 sh...
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Winter of our Unrest
With apologies to William Shakespeare, the winter of our unrest grows increasingly frigid as Congress (at the time of this writing) is preparing for its holiday recess while apparently choosing to defer a potential avalanche of issues including the...
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