PMID: 25794209Mar 21, 2015Paper

First, do no harm by adopting evidence-based policy initiatives: the overselling of ICD-10 by congress with high expectations

Pain Physician
Laxmaiah ManchikantiJoshua A Hirsch

Abstract

While it appears to be beneficial to apply a detailed disease classification system, the costs, cash flow disruptions, and increased investments with physician time incorporated into learning these processes, patient care might unfortunately suffer. This is essentially an unfunded mandate with much of the burden of transitioning to ICD-10 falling on health care providers,especially small independent practices. This will impact interventional pain management practices substantially.Further, as we have shown in previous manuscripts,the so-called advantages of multiple codes with specificity and granularity does not translate into reality where some specificity is actually lost for various codes. As Grimsley and O'Shea (1) have described in clinical practices, doctors do not treat codes, but they treat patients according to the individual clinical condition.A doctor will be losing valuable time and also will not be able to obtain meaningful information due to burdensome regulations of meaningful use, PQRS,value-based reimbursement, electronic prescribing,and now a major impact with change to ICD-10. Thus,very little benefit will be seen by practitioners, which cannot be said for the health care information industry.With overwhelmi...Continue Reading

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