The health care industry is embarking on a very expensive process to migrate to the use of ICD-10 codes –underappreciated in this process is the value that health plans can achieve from this exercise. There are a variety of ways that health plans could use ICD-10 codes for the benefit of themselves and their customers.

This white paper demonstrates how adopting ICD-10 and EHRs can provide information that would be useful to streamlining administrative burdens that plague both health plans and providers.