Is ICD-10 healthcare's Y2K moment?

The healthcare industry stands poised at the brink of a momentous change – one of which the general public is almost totally unaware. Starting on October 1, the entire industry will shift to a new set of diagnostic codes that will have to go on all claims for payment and on every other healthcare document that requires diagnostic codes. The seismic shift that this is expected to precipitate has been compared to Y2K, only with real consequences. The new International Classification of Diseases, Version 10 (ICD-10) has 68,000 codes, compared to 13,000 in the ICD-9 code set that has been used for decades.