I’m a little confused because just about every medical practice operating in the US today uses some kind of third-party software application to do all of the insurance claims work, and that software would have been updated to do ICD-10 without the practitioner having to do any actual conversion. I suppose that the office personnel would have to learn new codes, but I would think that would also be a click down menu with shortcuts for procedures the office does on a regular basis.
That said, I certainly support this physician in his views on the state of health care and insurance. My own physician stopped taking Medicare patients a couple of years ago due to the same type of concerns.
Best of luck with the practice going forward.
much of the practice software in current use were not built to accept the 6 digit ICD-10 codes.Upgrades are expensive.
Also, even though office staff enters the codes in the software, the physician must supply them with the correct code, or the staff must wade through the dictations and many more possible codes.