Health Care Reform and ICD-10 - Find Out What's in Store For Your Medical Coding Career

Quality health care relies on the maintenance andcoverage because of a pre-existing condition,
accuracy of patient records. With insurancethey will not be able to be denied covered in 2014.
coverage expected to greatly expand under- More Accurate Records: The implementation of
health care reform, the role and importance ofthe ICD-10-CM coding classification system will
medical coders will greatly increase. In fact, theirenable the U.S. to become compliant with the
unique skills and training will play an important partinternational coding system currently in use
in health care reform and ICD-10 coding as aworldwide and provide a more accurate way to
whole. Will you be ready?classify diagnoses, procedures, treatments, and
According to the Obama administration, it willmore.
make "health care more affordable, make healthWhat does this mean for your medical coding
insurers more accountable, expand healthcareer? The bottom line is that health care
coverage to all Americans, and make the healthreform will greatly increase the number of insured
system sustainable." With an increase in the sizeAmericans. Many families and businesses who
and prevalence of the health care system, it willcurrently can't afford insurance will have an
mean higher work volume for today's medicalavenue toward coverage. Plus, the ICD-10 coding
coders.system will revolutionize the way health
How Health Care Reform and ICD-10 Will Affectinformation is classified - as there are new medical
Your Careerbreakthroughs, there will be an effective way to
Under the new plan, Americans will experience:capture and record this data.
- Increased Affordability: More affordableHealth care reform and ICD-10 will trigger
insurance plans will enable 32 million moresignificant changes in the medical coding industry.
Americans to obtain coverage, with theThey will serve to pave the way for a greater
expectation that 95% of all Americans will beneed for trained medical coders. The increase in
covered.the number of insured individuals and claims, as
- Longer Dependent Coverage: Under the newwell as the significant change in the data system,
plan, parents will be allowed to keep their childrenwill mean more jobs and opportunities for coding
on their health plans until these dependents are 26professionals. You can be prepared by embarking
years old.on a new medical coding career or enhancing your
- No More Pre-Existing Conditions: It will eliminateexisting skill set with ICD-10 training and
discrimination based on pre-existing conditions orprofessional certification.
medical history. If people haven't been able to get