Icd 10 Advantages And Disadvantages

Introduction

The U.S. health care system relies on a set of codes, known as ICD-10, it is used to report diagnoses and in-patient procedures. The ICD-9 code set was replaced by the more detailed ICD-10, October 1, 2015. Switching to ICD-10 was required by anyone covered by the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act, also known as HIPPA. This includes doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies, all of whom rely on these codes for diagnosing patients and billing for services. ICD-10 is the abbreviation for International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification. There are new concepts that did not exist in ICD-9-CM, such as under dosing and blood type that are now included in the new system. The World Health

Some of the disadvantages with the old classification system included such issues as; the system was running out of numbers to assign for codes, the diagnosis codes did not provide sufficient clinical specificity to describe the severity or complexity of the numerous disease conditions, the exchange of important healthcare data with healthcare organizations and professionals around the world was hindered by the fact that many countries are presently using ICD-10, and lastly the system was ineffective when it came to monitoring the utilization of resources, measuring performance, or analyzing healthcare costs and outcomes. All these issues were addressed when the system upgrade was designed. An over whelming disadvantage across the board for all effected entities was time and money spent to upgrade this system. Another impact that was accounted for was the delay in claim reimbursements. The new system will be able to measure the quality, safety and efficacy of care as well as improvement of clinical, financial, and administrative performances. It has also designed payment systems and processors for claims reimbursement. The system is now able to conduct research, epidemiological studies, and clinical trials as well by simply searching the library of information. The system can also prevent and detect healthcare fraud or abuse! One more cool ability

It has a major impact on many employees daily routine that may already be very full. However I do believe that there is always need for improvement in technology especially when it comes down to providing better information to so many people. I believe that the new ICD-10 is a great upgrade in technology for the health care industry in so many ways just from the perspective of a future health care employee. I am an outsider looking in, but I think once everyone has had a couple of years with this new technology they will be wondering how they ever functioned without it. The biggest gap in the transition was the training to get hundreds of thousands of health care workers ready for the transition, but more than enough training opportunities were provided to be successful. I truly believe that this is a great technology and cannot wait to learn it myself in the next year or