ICD-10 for Emergency Medicine

ICD-10 Has Incorporated Some Major Changes Related To Emergency Department. Get the Lowdown HERE!

Providers and support staff of the Emergency Department will be expected to be trained and ready for the ICD-10 implementation date of October 1, 2015. Unlike ICD-9, ICD-10 is more descriptive and intuitive in regards to diagnosis coding. Since it is more specific, providers and coders must know how to have detailed clinical documentation so as to support the selection of the most specific ICD-10 diagnosis code by the biller and coder.

Expert speaker Dr. Dreama Sloan-Kelly, MD, CCS will address some of the issue that are unique to the Emergency Department in this informative session. She will provide tips on proper documentation to choose the most specific diagnosis code possible, online sites that give you access to the ICD-10 codes at no cost, tricks to creating easy ICD-10 cheat sheets, and more!

Session Highlights:

• Preparing for some of the unique issues Emergency Departments may face in preparing for ICD-10 and getting ready for implementation.
• Understanding the importance of detailed documentation so the coder can choose the most specific ICD-10 code possible.
• How to properly select an ICD-10 code to its highest level of specificity
• Online tools that will aid in the selection of the ICD-10
• Showing common conversion of ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes

Who should attend

Emergency Department -- Practice Managers, Office Managers, Medical Billers, Medical Coders, MD, DO, NP, PA, Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists, MR Auditors, Front Desk

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