Cardiology Practices Delay ICD-10 Preparation: Here’s a Checklist to Start the Ball Rolling

It’s mid-2011. Do you know where your ICD-10 is?

You may remember the television commercials several years back that said “It’s 11:00, do you know where your children are?”  The announcement served to get parents more involved in their children’s activities.  We need to be asking a similar question of medical practices now as we get closer to the conversion from the ICD-9-CM coding system to the ICD-10-CM system.