When you sit near the front and bring your own camera, you don't wind up on other peoples cameras y'see.
This is the ICD10 workshop held in Albany, OR on 9-16-11 at the Expo building. ICD10 is a diagnosis coding system originally invented by the World Health Organization to track statistics of disease outbreaks around the world. The USA has plowed through various versions of ICD8 and ICD9 and ignored the fact that the rest of the world is using ICD10 but not US. Until 10-1-2013. Yep, that is the magic date when Medicare will no longer accept bills coded in ICD9 and we must ICD10. I was educated in the basics and while the guidelines are similar to ICD9, it will be difficult at first to get this pounded into my head. Hey,wait a minute! Aren't you retiring someday? Yeah, well about that. Our contract coder really REALLY wants to retire before 10-01-13. The only other people interested work in the business office, so I'm it. I am hoping/prayer that we go with the Ingenix encoder with computer assisted coding so that I won't have a fart attack on 10-01-13.
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Retirment is over rated, don't cha know. Since "retiring", we have been busier than before.
There is the busy factor in retirement. My main retirement goal will be to clean out 12 years worth of cardboard boxes and plastic bottles (might need them for fuel or flood uh huh...)
And the book store. Must work on business plan.
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