4-1 Discussion Paper: ICD, Morbidity and Mortality
The United States is the last developed country to switch from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM. The reason the United States has not switched is the development of the CM portion of the program. Most other countries only use the ICD process for tracking morbidity and mortality; the United States uses it for the payment of claims as well. This is why the clinical modification (CM) is attached to ICD-10-CM.
The original date for the implementation was October 1, 2013. However, there were several organizations that were not prepared for the switch. So the implementation date was changed to October 1, 2015.
Other countries have begun the process of testing ICD-11. There was some discussion about not converting to ICD-10-CM but instead continuing with ICD-9-CM and waiting for ICD-11 to convert in the United States.
Discuss some of the advantages and some of the disadvantages that could be attributed to waiting for ICD-11.
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The ICD system is a codification regime in healthcare, which helps in simplifying appropriate disease and diagnosis system. The migration from ICD 9 is inevitable as a result of lack of comprehensiveness when it comes to addressing the current diseases and their respective diagnoses. It's outdated nature even places a threat to the quality of care it can accord the various patient populations (Albright, 2013). The move to ICD 10 or 11 has however been marred with much dilemma and uncertainty over the cost and level of difficulty for either. Waiting for ICD 11 would, however, have its advantages and disadvantages too.
As an advantage of waiting for ICD 11, it would ensure that the medical practitioners can learn more about the earlier codification processes so that its implementation becomes seamless. It would provide these professionals with a critical piece of coding education (Herman, 2012). The other advantage is that it adequately prepares the physicians, so as to prevent any challenges such as cash flow problems, during its implem...