Karna Wahlquist Morrow CDP, RCC, CC S-P

Diagnostic coding trainer Karna W. Morrow, CDP, RCC, CC S-P, made a connection between shifting requirements of the new payment models relevant to radiology and unique capabilities of the ICD-10 diagnostic coding system in a recent presentation at ACR 2015. “Payers may not be as interested in what you did (when they were working in a purely fee-for-service environment), but why you did it,” she said.
Morrow, who is a consulting services manager at Coding Strategies Inc., Power Springs, GA, argued that ICD-10 will help physicians to more effectively operate “in the brave new world” of value-based payments by describing essential details about patient’s status and history to aid radiologists when rendering a diagnosis and imaging administrators in getting paid.