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do you intend to stick around for ICD10 ? - cj
Posted: May 17, 2010
For those of you who are currently coders, do you intend to stick around for ICD10? Are any of you planning on getting out of the field? Do you know what your employer has in mind as far as training staff for the ICD10? Just curious. I just talked to an HIM director who said she is worried as more than half of her staff has indicated they intend to leave! Should make for a lot of jobs for new coders.
ICD-10 - SM
[ In Reply To ..]Half our coders are howling that they're going to quit and the other half are still insisting nothing is going to happen.
We've been providing some training already. Now the tunes are changing. The ones who swore they'd quit are starting to see some potential in this whole affair, and the nay-sayers are starting to want more training.
I think some people who are close to retirement and burned out anyway will quit. I also think some coders who were kind of on the fence with respect to education, skills, and accuracy will quit.
There should be some jobs opening up, especially for people who can work comfortably in both systems, and I think the demand for solid ICD-10 procedure coders will increase drastically, if not skyrocket. There should also be a solid market for coders who can teach.
ICD-10 - JM
[ In Reply To ..]I am looking forward to it. I find ICD-9 is very outdated and leaves you hanging sometimes. I like that ICD-10 will have more specificity but I also worry about the documentation meeting the standards needed. That is where the frustration will be.
I so agree - cj
[ In Reply To ..]With your statement about documentation. I laugh because our director and manager talk about re-educating the providers in documentation practices. Hello? We coders have been saying this for years now as documentation has always been a problem. Suddenly they think because of the dawn of ICD10 that the providers will go "oh yeah, we need to change this." I see a lot of physician queries in my future!
Where there is frustration, there will be jobs. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Instead of seeing the documentation problems as frustration, see them as an opportunity for lots of lovely new jobs in coding.
frustration - cj
[ In Reply To ..]There will likely be lots of "lovely new jobs in coding" but not because of this. The implementation of ICD10 is predicted to create a lot of new jobs. Documentation practices have been an issue that coders have dealt with since, well, forever and will continue to be so. Experienced coders are used to it, and though it is frustrating, if they haven't left before because of the documentation issues, they aren't leaving now because of them. Ask any coder how their documentation is and you will get one big groan. It is just part of the job, and we coders know it. Like i see, I see a lot more physician queries in my future!
Missing the point - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Documentation practices are an issue if a coder can't do the part of their job that requires dealing with it. Half the queries our coders want to send result from their own misunderstandings, not from anything wrong with the documentation. The groaning is a popular coder-culture pasttime. One of the main things coders are going to need is more education in pathophysiology than whatever rinky-dink excuse they had for it in college.
That's not what I was talking about, though. I was talking about jobs opening up in documentation improvement. You already said somewhere else that you didn't want to do anything like that, or get a higher credential, but that doesn't mean nobody else does or should.
I know of an entire healthcare network that is opening up jobs at every facility for coding specialists in documentation improvement to work with their physician staffs, and they are serious about it.
kind of what I was thinking, too - cj
[ In Reply To ..]That everyone would holler and scream that they were going to quit but then when they started learning it they will find that they actually like it! And that a lot of the older coders, those close to retirement, may very well choose to leave. It is interesting to hear that that is actually what you are seeing. Thank you.
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