CMS answers your ICD-10 questions
Billing Alert for Long-Term Care, August 1, 2010
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Q. What are some of the benefits of ICD-10?
A. The benefits of ICD-10 are:
- Measuring the quality, safety, and efficacy of care
- Designing payment systems and processing claims for reimbursement
- Conducting research, epidemiological studies, and clinical trials
- Setting health policy
- Operational and strategic planning and designing healthcare delivery systems
- Monitoring resource utilization
- Improving clinical, financial, and administrative performance
- Preventing and detecting healthcare fraud and abuse
- Tracking public concerns and assessing risks of adverse public health events
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