A Powerful Tool For ICD9-ICD10 Conversion

By PAT SALBER                                    SPONSORED CONTENT Prior to attending medical school, Parth Desai took a gap year to help his mom manage his dad’s small internal medicine practice.  She was worried about how she was going to handle the looming transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10.  Parth said he would help her out. He looked at different consultants and programs, but they were all too complicated, too expensive, or both.  He also looked at a number of different ICD-10 training programs, but didn’t really find anything that he thought was that good.  He wanted help with code conversions, but everything he saw was slow, or required additional personnel, or was too costly. So, he did what lots of entrepreneurs do, he decided to build what he needed himself.  He enlisted his former college roommate, Will Pattiz, a “tech whiz, outdoor enthusiast, and filmmaker” to help him and together they developed software that automates the conversion of ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes.  Once they completed the task, they decided they shouldn’t limit the use of the software to just Parth’s dad’s practice. They spent some more time cleaning it up and making it pretty. It is now available online at ICD10Charts.com. It’s free to any doctor in the country who wants to use it – and ready in plenty of time for practices to get ready for the October 1, 2015 deadline for compliance with the required conversion. I asked Parth why he didn’t turn ICD-10 Cha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Small Practice THCB Source Type: blogs