ICD-11 Medical Coding: How to Prepare your Healthcare Organization for ICD-11
Healthcare organizations in the United States and around the world use the ICD-10 medical coding standard. Starting in 2022, however, organizations will switch to the ICD-11 standard. ICD-11 has four times as many codes as ICD-10. That means new challenges for healthcare providers – and new problems with missed revenue, coding errors, and denied claims . Keep reading to discover some of the significant changes in ICD-11 medical coding, including how your organization can prepare for the release of ICD-11 . What is ICD-11? The World Health Organization has created the ICD-10 medical coding standard, which is currently in use in the United States and around the world. It’s the tenth version of the International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes. In May 2019, WHO member states voted to implement the 11th version of that system: ICD-11. As healthcare changes and new diagnoses and treatments emerge, WHO regularly needs to ...