Consider dual coding in advance of ICD-10: Three facilities share their approaches

February 14, 2012

Most health information management directors have October 2013 looming in their minds as the ICD-10 implementation deadline. But according to many experts, coders should be coding in both ICD-9 and ICD-10 well in advance of that date. How best to set up a dual coding system in your hospital and when to do it, however, is more difficult to ascertain. To give you a sampling of some different approaches, Sheila Schultz, RHIT, Sandra Berryman, RHIA, MBA, CHP, and Rachel Reyes, RHIA, share their stories, which we hope will provide you with ideas on how to structure a program of your own.

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