Why the U.S. Must Implement ICD-11: The Antimicrobial Resistance Case
Why the U.S. Must Implement ICD-11: The Antimicrobial Resistance Case Part of the MEDESUN series — Why the U.S. Must Implement ICD-11 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the defining public-health threats of our time. According to the World Health...
Why the U.S. Must Implement ICD-11: The IBD Lesson – MEDESUN ICD-11 Training Series
By Dr. M. Santosh Kumar Guptha · Founder & CEO, MEDESUN Medical Coding Academy – ICD-11 Training Series Across this series, I have shown how ICD-10-CM repeatedly loses clinical information that ICD-11 preserves — the rhythm of a cardiac arrest,...
Why U.S. Healthcare Should Start Working in ICD-11 Implementation: The Asthma Lesson – MEDESUN
By Dr. M. Santosh Kumar Guptha · Founder & CEO, MEDESUN Medical Coding Academy – ICD-11 Implementation Ask most coding professionals what a classification system is for, and the honest answer in the United States today is “reimbursement.” But the...
What U.S. Healthcare Loses Every Year It Waits on ICD-11 Implementation- MEDESUN- Dr Santosh Guptha
The Cardiac Arrhythmia Edition – ICD-11 Implementation Series ICD-10-CM can tell you that a patient went into cardiac arrest. It cannot tell you the rhythm that stopped their heart. For anyone who has stood in a resuscitation, that sentence should...
Why US Healthcare Must Move to ICD-11 — The Sepsis Case – MEDESUN
By Dr. Santosh Guptha · MEDESUN Global Sepsis is one of the most consequential diagnoses in American medicine. It is a leading cause of in-hospital death, one of the costliest conditions hospitals treat, and the focus of national quality programs...
Why the U.S. Healthcare System Should Begin Preparing for ICD-11: Lessons from Heart Failure
Published by MEDESUN Global — Medical Coding Education & Credentialing Every few decades, the language we use to describe disease has to grow up. ICD-10-CM has served US healthcare well, but it was built for a paper-and-database world. ICD-11 was...
CMCC® by PMBAUSA LLC: The Professional Path to Becoming a Medical Coding Consultant
CMCC® Credential – The Gold-Standard Credential for Experienced Medical Coders Healthcare organizations now expect senior medical coders to go beyond code assignment and demonstrate consultative judgment, interoperability knowledge, regulatory compliance awareness, and data-security expertise. This is exactly where the CMCC® –...
Global Healthcare Runs on ICD-11—U.S. Healthcare Still Doesn’t
Why U.S. Healthcare Should Move to ICD-11 — Now, Not Later (Coding Is No Longer Just About Payment) The Quiet Storm in Healthcare Coding For decades, medical coding in the United States has been viewed primarily as a billing...