CMS and Obamacare have increasingly been moving healthcare toward a more value-based model. They want to pay physicians for how well they treat patients and not by the volume of services they provide...
Implementation costs and plans took center stage at The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on health’s ICD-10 Implementation hearing today. Seven witnesses testified before the...
The fate of the October 1, 2014 ICD-10 implementation date will remain in limbo until Monday. The House of Representatives passed HR 4302 Thursday as a one-year fix to the Sustainable Growth Rate (...
Curious to know what changes the four cooperating parties made to the ICD-10-CM codes for 2014? You can now find out by downloading the 2014 ICD-10-CM codes from the Centers for Disease Control and...
This is just one of hundreds examples of changes coming with ICD-10. Every family practice regardless of size should identify a person(s) to be the designated ICD-10 expert. To develop appropriate...
259 days. That’s the time remaining until we start using ICD-10. How far along are you? You’ve completed your coding assessments, right? Hopefully, you’ve already started your coder training. At the...
In September 2003, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) issued a report titled, " ICD-10 Field Testing Project ," which summarized findings after 169 participants...
We should all be in the middle of our plans to transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. From planning and budgeting to training and auditing to process and technology changes, the...
Although the U.S. healthcare community is bracing themselves for this massive switch to ICD-10 in 2013, many other countries have already been through it. For example, providers in Canada...
If nothing else, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, is consistent. He again introduced legislation to kill ICD-10. (The bill is H.R.2126 if you are interested.) Poe has tried this trick before. He introduced an...
