ICD-10 Training Leaves Health Care Leaders “Shell Shocked”

Many health care leaders believe that their organizations have the move to the new medical coding standard ICD-10 under control. Then they attend a training session. "When we complete the training, many organizations are shell shocked," said an executive with a leading ICD-10 training firm. Most have completely under estimated the time, cost, and skills required to perform the ICD-10 conversion and implementation.

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Will Not Save Costs

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) contains many beneficial provisions but that will not help solve the problem of rapidly rising costs any time soon.

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