CMS Will Reimburse ICD-10 Mistakes
The CMS has made a concession in the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. For one year past the Oct. 1, 2015 deadline, the CMS will reimburse for wrongly coded claims…
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July 7, 2015
Medical Coders Get Tips For Transition To New System
Communication was the theme at the Code It Right conference last week as medical coders prepare for a massive transition to a new medical coding system known as ICD-10. “I…
June 30, 2015
State Medical Societies Warn of Disaster with ICD-10 Transition
The country’s four largest state medical societies—California, Florida, New York, and Texas—have warned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the Oct. 1 ICD-10 implementation deadline is a “looming…
June 24, 2015
Clinical Documentation Excellence Program: Tackling ICD-10 Challenges
In October 2013, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) launched its clinical go-live of ICD-10 with a focus on data-driven priority setting and physician engagement. An external audit of…
June 16, 2015
Lawmakers Propose ICD-10 Two-Year ‘Grace Period’
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,…
June 10, 2015
CMS: Successful April Medicare FFS ICD-10 End-to-End Testing
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…
June 3, 2015
8 Tips For Protecting Revenue Under ICD-10
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…
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June 2, 2015
AMA Pushes for More Delay, But ICD-10 is Necessary
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…
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May 27, 2015
10 Questions To Ask Payers Today About ICD-10
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…
May 21, 2015
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CMS Offers ICD-10 Advice for the Home Stretch
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…
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May 15, 2015
IS TROUBLE LOOMING FOR ICD-10?
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,…
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May 13, 2015
ICD-10 Bill Surfaces, Calls For Delay, More Study Of Rollout Disruptions
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…
May 12, 2015
CMS Accepting More Requests for ICD-10 End-to-End Testing
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…
May 11, 2015
There’s A Code For That: Doctors Brace For 155,000 Choices
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…
March 31, 2015
How To Be An ICD-10 Champion
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,…
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March 26, 2015
AHIMA Responds to Concerns Over ICD-10 Contingency Plans
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…
March 23, 2015
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