As explained in your text, coding was originally designed to provide access to medical records through retrieval for medical research, education, and administration. Today codes are used to: 1. Facilitate payment of health services 2. Evaluate patients’ use of health care facilities (utilization patterns) 3. Study health care costs 4. Research the quality of health care 5. Predict health care trends 6. Plan for future health care needs While ICD-9 accomplished these tasks, the general goal is that ICD-10 will expand these services. For this weeks discussion posting, pick one of the above subjects and tell why and how ICD-10 will make improve it. Research the internet for articles and information to support your report

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