A group of 15 organizations is urging congressional leaders to ensure that no future delays to ICD-10 implementation take place. In a recent letter to top political leaders, the organizations say that prior delays have been “disruptive and costly”.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be conducting a national testing week, from November 17 to 21, 2014.
If big data in healthcare is the future for medicine, then ICD-10 is the way to get there. Over the past year, most of the news surrounding ICD-10 has been either bureaucratic or comical in nature.
Healthcare providers will need a denials manager who can track denials and communicate with healthcare payers.
Physician groups, hospitals and coding support companies have been gearing up to address the many changes required to meet the challenges of the upcoming conversion to ICD-10-CM/PCS.
ICD-10-PCS is a major departure from ICD-9-CM procedure coding, and as such many Coding Specialists find ICD-10-PCS much more challenging to learn than ICD-10-CM (which still shares many similarities with ICD-9-CM). In order to ease the transition from ICD-9-CM procedure coding to ICD-10-PCS, over the next ten months, we will provide tips for coding under this system.
While Tuesday’s election was important for many reasons, none of them have a direct impact on the ICD-10 debate.
On July 31, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) formally announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had finalized Oct. 1, 2015 as the new compliance date for healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses to ICD-10.
CD-10’s benefits can be defined in just a few simple phrases. It’s time to get on board.
We all know that the official deadline for implementing ICD-10 has been moved to Oct. 1, 2015. Any healthcare organization that singles out that date as its primary focus, however, is placing itself at grave financial risk.