I suggest you read about ICD-10, you don't have to memorize any codes, but you should know what the changes mean as far as billing for more specific conditions. As for health care reform, it's still too early to say a lot but the major changes are as follows:
- health insurance plans have minimum coverage requirements (e.g. all plans have to cover a specific set of things, from cancer to childbirth)
- out of pocket expenses are capped at $10,000 a year (or less if the plan specifies)
- yearly well woman/well child visits and preventive care (mammograms, colonoscopies) are not subject to any charges to insured patients, including co-pays, coinsurance or deductibles
- insurers may not ask anyone about pre-existing conditions or price based on pre-existing conditions (this first applied to children, now applies to everyone)
- discriminating based on gender is illegal (women no longer have to pay more just because they are women)
- children may stay on a parent's insurance plan until age 26
- lifetime limits on insurance coverage are illegal
- annual limits on insurance coverage will be illegal after 2014
Due to the expansion of Medicaid and the fact that pre-existing conditions are a thing of the past, expect to see more people who have not received preventive/primary care in a long time. This may create a bit of a bottleneck, although so far it hasn't had a huge effect on scheduling.
*EXCEPTION: the insurance industry managed to whine enough to get some junk insurance plans "grandfathered" even though they don't meet the minimum coverage requirements. Usually these plans are from unfamiliar payers (first tip-off would be you've never heard of the insurer) and are provided by employers too cheap to offer real insurance to their employees. There is also a loophole that allows for these plans as long as they are labeled "indemnity" plans.
Otherwise, I would also suggest you skim the CMS Medicare manual just to see how familiar it seems.
Good luck!