Hospital employees will undertake intensive training to prepare for the Oct. 1, 2014, implementation deadline, and much of the training will take place online, according to the report.
ICD-10’s increased specificity contains approximately 68,000 potential diagnostic codes, compared to ICD-9’s 13,000.
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