Question

For the past several years, ICD-10-CM/PCS has been in the forefront of healthcare news. The extended implementation delays created challenges for all of the stakeholders in the healthcare industry.

In your post, state your current perception of ICD-10-CM/PCS. Using the delays that we experienced with ICD-10, formulate your opinion based on your own personal experience or do some research on how the World Health Organization can prepare to capitalize on the next generation ICD-11 to incorporate features that will better capture progress being made in health sciences, technology and the medical practice.

Answer 1

Though ICD10 is a good advancement in medicine to code diseases and used for varied reasons. There are something which is necessary to be incorporated in ICD11 to avoid error and provide a good quality of care.

Few opinions are

• Patient details should also be mentioned in certain diseases
• The difficulty in making definitive diagnosis has to be sorted out in ICD11
• most if the time there is incompatibility of physician while coding
• Production is reduced or decreased due to delay process
• Reimbursement is difficult due to coding
• There is a decreased cash flow
• The claim error and delay in coding has to be sorted out.