How to Answer: How do you think that ICD-10 will affect your level of patient care?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Podiatrist job interview.
6. How do you think that ICD-10 will affect your level of patient care?
How to Answer
The ICD-10 is the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification. Many of the podiatry ICD-9 codes have been revised for the ICD-10 and will have to be correctly applied for smooth billing and collections. However, any electronic medical record system that has a billing component should do that automatically. The only people affected will be podiatrists who do their billing manually through a third party. As far as your 'level of patient care,' know that your level of care should be impervious to changes like this, remaining--of course--ideal and to the best of your ability. Sometimes simplest is best.
Written by D. Leo on May 9th, 2021
Entry Level
"The only change will be that I will make sure I'm coding correctly--neither upcoding, which could be seen as fraud, nor downcoding, which will deprive me of legitimately earned fees."
Written by D. Leo on May 9th, 2021
Experienced Level
"I have learned long ago to let the proprietary software do the work correctly the first time. I would anticipate no changes to my level of care since I practice to the best of my abilities regardless of the bureaucratic clerical designations that have to be applied as a fee for services."
Written by D. Leo on May 9th, 2021