No more kicking this ICD-10 can down the road. It’s finally here.  We have all been waiting, planning, preparing, training, and yes, worrying. With ICD-10 only 24 hours away, will […]

Ten years ago I had the chance to make my job portable and work from home, so I moved to a small town called Florence that I “discovered” on the […]

In Neil Stephenson’s latest novel Seveneves, one of the main characters says, “politics” is a word nerds use when they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization. When […]

Donna: Sue, can you believe it? We’re going live with ICD-10 in less than two weeks – this has to be the longest pregnancy in history! Sue: I know. You […]

That’s the current countdown to ICD-10, ticking away as I sit and write this blog post. By the time it’s posted, we’ll be even closer. And for every day, in […]

A system for classifying knowledge is a framework for organizing information. It is usually a vastly simplified model of some aspect of reality as we understand it, like the periodic […]

Back in March, I reported at the CMS ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance meeting that the expected financial impact of the conversion to ICD-10 for a typical Medicare inpatient case mix […]

This blog assumes you have read part 1, so if you haven’t, see you back here in a few minutes. Part 2 is for those of you in specialties where […]

Did you end up here because you haven’t done squat about ICD-10, and you googled “ICD-10 cheat sheet?” Fantastic. Come on in, there’s plenty of room. I could get all […]

If you have the slightest inclination to freak out about ICD-10 because change makes you nervous, please ignore this blog. Okay, now for the rest of you: the code sets […]

Donna: You know Sue, I think that people are really stepping up their ICD-10 game as we enter the home stretch. Sue: The way I look at it, they’ve been […]

CHALLENGE QUESTION A 37-year old male with a long-standing history of the diagnosis of gender identity disorder is currently undergoing counseling and medical therapy in an effort to work toward […]