U.S. lawmakers are making their third attempt in just over a month to tweak ICD-10 with new legislation. This time around, rather than attempting to kill or delay ICD-10 altogether,…
According to today's announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), ICD-10 implementation success is here. Between Monday, April 27 and Friday, May 1, Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) healthcare…
The “Increasing Clarity for Doctors by Transitioning Effectively Now Act” is an attempt to create a 'safe harbor' for medical claim reimbursements for physician practices struggling to get ICD-10 coding…
Thomas Selva, MD, is chief medical information officer at the University of Missouri Healthcare. Last week we spoke about the last-minute attempt by the American Medical Association to once again…
There's more to communicating with healthcare payers than handing them a medical claim and saying, "Pay me." Creating better relationships with your payers before Oct. 1, in fact, enables providers…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has just released a fact sheet on preparing for ICD-10. This latest message offers suggestions for providers whose information systems may not be…
We might be entering into the hot months of summer, but before you know it it’ll be fall, and with it will come the long anticipated transition to ICD-10. However,…
Text of a bill by Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, to delay the switch to ICD-10 diagnostic coding surfaced on Monday, in which it requests further study on the disruption on…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for applying to conduct end-to-end testing with Medicare in July. Application forms are now being accepted May 11 through…
Closing in on two hours before the midnight deadline, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday April 14th, 2015 passed the bill in a vote of 92 to 8 to permanently end…
A US Court of Appeals ruling earlier this month that invalidates a provision of Medicare's 2014 Recovery Audit Program contracts is the latest setback for federal officials who administer the…
Suppose, in a comical sequence of indignities, you are pecked by a goose, bitten by a crocodile, crushed by a human stampede at an opera house, injured in a fall…
With about six months to go before the ICD-10 deadline, many medical practices are wondering if they can get it done in time. They may think they need a hero,…
Concerns from a coalition of medical and professional organizations that CMS' lack of contingency plans for the ICD-10 transition are understandable but unfounded, according to the American Health Information Management…
Anecdotal evidence suggests the coding shift might chase physicians into retirement.
The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) recently defended its practices pertaining to hospital compliance reviews in a published response to a letter from the American Hospital Association (AHA), while simultaneously announcing a voluntary suspension of reviews of inpatient short stay claims after October 1, 2013.