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ICD-10| Impact of ICD-10 in Healthcare | Policy, News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant

Do We Really Understand Documentation Requirements for ICD-10 PCS?

by Our Thought Leaders 06/17/2015 2 Comments

Editor's Note: Dr. Jon Elion is the founder and CEO of ChartWise Medical Systems, He is a practicing board-certified cardiologist in Providence, RI and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University. After decades of experience with ICD-9, we have learned and come to grips with its quirks. We do not yet have that comfort level with ICD-10 -- after all, it’s still pretty new to most of us in the U.S. I’m not really concerned about the diagnosis side of ICD-10 and its Clinical
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6 Reasons Why ICD-10 Safe Harbor Is Dangerous for Healthcare Delivery

by Our Thought Leaders 06/16/2015 1 Comment

Editor's Note: The Coalition for ICD-10 has issued the following statement in response to the recent efforts to create a "safe harbor" for physicians, which would prohibit claims from being denied due to incorrect or unspecified ICD-10 codes, will result in dangerous consequences for the healthcare delivery system. Multiple bills have been introduced in Congress that create a “safe harbor” for physicians by prohibiting claims from being denied “due solely to the use of an unspecified or
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WEDI Opens ICD-10 Readiness Survey to Gauge Industry Progress

by HITC Staff 06/11/2015 Leave a Comment

WEDI Releases ICD-10 Readiness Survey To Help Assess Industry's Progress Towards ICD-10

  On Thursday, The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced the release of its latest ICD-10 readiness survey to help determine how prepared the healthcare industry is prepared for the upcoming Oct. 1, 2015 compliance deadline. With less than 111 days left , providers, health plans, vendors and clearinghouses are invited to participate in this important initiative to help gauge progress for all parties. With the implementation deadline fast approaching, providers,
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New Bill Proposes 2 Year ICD-10 Grace Period

by Jasmine Pennic 06/09/2015 Leave a Comment

A new bill introduced into the US House of Representatives introduced by Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL-6) on June 4  proposes a two-year “grace period” for accepting codes submitted in ICD-10-CM/PCS. The bill, H.R. 2652, Protecting Patients and Physicians Against Coding Act of 2015, would establish a two-year ICD-10 grace period during which physicians and other health care providers submitting claims and other documents using ICD–10 are not penalized for errors, mistakes, and malfunctions relating to
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CMS Releases April ICD-10 End to End Testing Results

by Fred Pennic 06/03/2015 Leave a Comment

ICD-10 CMS_ICD-10 End to End Testing

CMS has announced the results of its second ICD-10 end to end testing week conducted from April  27 through May 1, 2015 for Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) health care providers, clearinghouses, and billing agencies. CMS was able to accommodate most volunteers, representing a broad cross-section of provider, claim, and submitter types. Approximately 875 providers and billing companies participated, and testers submitted over 23,000 test claims. Key results include:  • The acceptance rate
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5 Common Myths About The ICD-10 Transition

by Jasmine Pennic 05/29/2015 Leave a Comment

With ICD-10 compliance date less than five months away, there is still an abundance of common misconceptions associated to this transition. For providers, these ICD-10 misconceptions can prove extremely costly and damaging to the implementation.    Pam Klugman, chief product officer of Clear Vision Information Systems specifically warns providers to avoid these five common myths about ICD-10: 1. The new ICD-10 codes are simply increased and renumbered code sets. While it is true
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Do All Physicians Oppose the Transition to ICD-10?

by Our Thought Leaders 03/20/2015 Leave a Comment

Coalition for ICD-10

Editor's Note: The Coalition for ICD-10 is a broad-based healthcare industry advocacy group — hospitals, health plans, hospital and physician office coding experts, vendors, and the health information technology (HIT) community— united in support of the U.S. adoption of the ICD-10 coding standard. According to French abstract artist Robert Delaunay, “Our understanding is correlative to our perception.” Many in the healthcare community may have the perception that all physicians oppose the
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Why the ICD-10 Dual Coding Proposal Is A Recipe for Disaster

by Our Thought Leaders 03/09/2015 Leave a Comment

Coalition for ICD-10

The Coalition for ICD-10 has issued a new position statement in response to the latest trial balloon from ICD-10 opponents, which  proposes that CMS allow a ICD-10 dual coding system approach in which small physician offices would be able to submit claims coded in either ICD-10 or ICD-9 during a transition period after Oct. 1, 2015.  Members of the Coalition are united in making the following statement: Concerns have been raised about the potential financial impact on small physician offices
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CMS Reports 81% of ICD-10 Test Claims Accepted

by HITC Staff 02/27/2015 Leave a Comment

ICD-10 CMS_ICD-10 End to End Testing

81 percent of submitted ICD-10 test claims were accepted during the first ICD-10 end-to-end testing from January 26 through February 3, 2015, according to CMS. 661 healthcare organizations including providers, clearinghouses and billing agencies participated submitting a total of 14,929 ICD-10 test claims, 12,149 of which were accepted. Overall, the results demonstrate the CMS systems are ready to accept ICD-10 claims.  ICD-10 claim test results found the reasons for rejected claims
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ADP AdvancedMD Releases ICD-10 Toolkit Mobile App

by Fred Pennic 02/26/2015 Leave a Comment

ADP AdvancedMD Releases ICD-10 Toolkit Mobile App

ADP AdvancedMD has announced the release and availability of AdvancedMD ICD-10 Toolkit mobile app that gives private practices a suite of ICD-10 preparation tools available in the iTunes Store. Now anyone with an iPhone or iPad running iOS8 can easily test their readiness and train staff for the October 1st deadline, free of charge. Customers of AdvancedMD practice management software can also leverage the app to add ICD-10 codes to their charge slip templates. The app was created as part of
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