Some Providers Get Software with Dual ICD-9 and ICD-10 Billing

The one-year delay of the ICD-10 medical billing code implementation was anticipated by some software vendors charged with programming the code changes into medical providers' office management systems.As a back-up plan, they installed software systems that can process both ICD-9 and ICD-10 billing formats.Michele Hibbert-Iacobacci, vice president of information management and support of Mitchell International, said such "dual coding" has been installed to enable providers to get paid using whatever format is applied to treatments they provide. "Doctors are not tolerant of office mana...