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How ICD-10 will affect transcription - Lori

Posted: Sep 04, 2013

Just wanted some thoughts on this article with regards to transcription. Scroll down to How Will The New System Help... http://www.m-scribe.com/blog/bid/214013/Medical-Documentation-and-Coding-Demand-Will-Increase-with-ICD-10

ICD-10 is not likely to have that effect on MT. - sm

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It will increase coding, but there is no good reason it will affect MT. Coders do not code as described in the article, either. We don't plop in codes based on the presence of medical words in records. It may appear that way, but there is more going on.

That individual does not appear to understand what he is talking about.

It's a sales pitch for their product . . . - grain of salt

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The article is obviously skewed to their needs and not any hard facts. It's not like the doctor's have been dictating burn to the arm and never qualifying it with right or left! I don't see where it will increase transcription at all, just saying.

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