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ICD-10 expenses go beyond just the cost of staff training and new software, according to an ICD10Watch report. Here are 10 business and clinical process considerations healthcare providers should also factor into their ICD-10 budgets.

Providers seem to be more hesitant to learn ICD-10-PCS than ICD-10-CM, even though the procedural codes are more complex than the diagnosis codes and 20 times more complex than the ICD-9 procedural codes, according to an EHR Intelligence report.

Here are 10 statistics on salary and benefits for medical coders and staff member, according to Medscape's 2013 Clinical & Office Staff Salary Report.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association showed how complicated the ICD-10 transition will be, according to an ICD-10 Watch report.

With less than nine months left until the transition to ICD-10, it's crucial that healthcare providers have a solid execution strategy in place.

Dual coding may be necessary to help practices implement ICD-10, but it will also cost money and productivity, according to a Government Health IT report.

A transition away from ICD-9 could have been an opportunity to truly adopt a more efficient, more informative data-capturing system, but ICD-10 is far from that, according to Albert Shar, MD, of DOTmed HealthCare Business News.

The Medical Group Management Association conducted a study of ICD-10 readiness and found less than 10 percent of practices have made significant progress to prepare for the transition.

In a Physicians Practice report, Marisa Torrieri discusses what physicians can do when dropped from an insurer's health plan.

EmployerDirect named Amanda Bary vice president of sales and implementation and expanded the sales team.