A Recipe for Success with ICD-10  

Category: ICD-10

By Deborah Grider, Senior Manager at Blue and Company and industry expert on ICD-10

Have you ever invited friends over for dinner, only to realize that because you were looking at the "cook time" and ignoring the "prep time" it was going to take much longer than you expected? That can be embarrassing, but it's nothing compared to being a healthcare facility that finds itself unprepared for ICD-10. And, like finding out that your friends are coming an hour later than expected, HHS recently made its final determination to push back the ICD-10 implementation date to October 1, 2014. But that doesn't mean you can sit for another year before taking action; it's a chance for all those businesses that are behind to catch up to where they should be.

By now you should have a steering committee formed, with an overall plan in place for your implementation. But for those who are stil...