ICD-10 comes with greater specificity and more numerous codes. There are approximately 68,000 ICD-10 codes compared to 14,000 ICD-9 codes. Medical practices are going through immense pressure due to ICD-10 implementation.

It points to the fact, how tough it is without the ICD-9 to ICD-10 mapping tool, to carry the huge code set with you. Let us make this learning a little fun with some bizarre, absurd and ridiculous mentioned by our AAPC certified ICD-10 coding veterans. I hope you will never forget these ICD-10 codes.

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Victoria

Senior Medical Practice Consultant at PracticeBridge Inc

As a Senior Medical Practice Consultant at PracticeBridge Inc, Victoria Migliaccio writes industry trending news, insights, tips and ideas about practice management topics like medical billing and ICD 10 coding, credentialing, claims and denials management, AR followup etc.

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