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Would anyone care to share how their facilities are preparing for ICD-10? - student


Posted: Feb 18, 2014

We are taking refresher courses in Anatomy, Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, Medical Terminology and then of course ICD-10 and ICD-10-PCS.  It is A LOT to do in addition to our jobs.   It is exhausting.   Is this what you are experiencing?

Yes, learning from - all sides

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We are going to workshops, online, our own practice coding for PCS and CMS, will start dual coding soon. Very busy. I have been checking out remote companies and they are offering their employees education in one way or another online. Amphion has a great bundle at Amphion U.

It's overwhelming at times. :( - anon

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I haven't worked a 40 hour work week in . . . . I don't remember when. Not that I'm not grateful, but wow. Just. Wow.

Yes, same thing - We started ages ago, though

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We had a variety of resources to use ... books, online courses, training calls, webinars.

Most all of it provided CEUs, so no complaints there! We have several people who took the ICD-10 trainer course, which helps a lot.

Everyone gets work time for it. We already added a few positions to compensate for that and expect to add more. Lots of overtime, too.



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