Ready or not! Here comes ICD-10

Ready or not! Here comes ICD-10.

The International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) is a new system that is a federally mandated change affecting all payers and providers, and is expected to exceed both the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Y2K in terms of costs and risks. In 2003, HIPAA named ICD-9 as the code set for supporting diagnoses and procedures in electronic administrative transact...

Ready or not? Here it comes!

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Ready or not, here it comes: maintenance of certification.

When Sir William Osler, one of the greatest physicians in medical history, left Philadelphia, he offered his remarks on what became one of the most celebrated of treatises: Aequanimitas. It was this that my father handed to me as I graduated from medical school. It is a hard thing to attain, a mastery of equilibrium no matter what the challenges. When Sir William Osler wrote it, he was referrin...

Ready or not, here they come.

Here they come, ready or not.

The District also could adopt the idea of police mini-stations and youth safe havens, which share the same space and have worked well in places as diverse as Columbia, S.C., New Hampshire and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Police in these ministations become an integral part of the inner-city community and function as mentors for young people as well as law officers. The safe havens, run by civilian no...