How Can Organizations Leverage the Increased Specificity of ICD-10 Codes?

Edifecs did a survey of more than 450 healthcare industry representatives to find out how they plan to use the increased specificity of ICD-10 codes. Here are the results of their survey:
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What do you think of these areas of ICD-10 benefit? How does your organization plan to benefit from ICD-10 coding?

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  • I think icd 10 is already very specific about icd codes, when we will start coding icd 10 codes we will know the exact percentage about specificity.

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