Despite a one-year delay, healthcare providers and payers are still lagging in preparing for the conversion to ICD-10 diagnostic and procedure codes.
According to a survey by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), only about half of IT vendors said they were less than halfway through product development—results that mirrored a survey from the previous year. Nearly half of health plans said they were planning to test system capabilities with customers, which WEDI said was “moderate progress” over the previous year. More than 4 out of 10 providers said they could not say when they would begin testing necessary changes…
