The document discusses preparing for the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 coding which is mandated to take effect on October 1, 2014. It outlines key steps providers, payers, clearinghouses, and software vendors should take including establishing a transition team, developing a timeline and plan, assessing system impacts, securing budgets, coordinating with trading partners, and beginning testing early. Training for coders and providers on ICD-10 is also recommended to begin 6-9 months prior to the compliance deadline. The document provides resources for finding ICD-10 codes, training, and the latest news and guidance on the transition.
What is the status on ICD-10? In this Infographic I bring you the facts you always wanted to know & 6 foundation blocks for successful ICD-10 implementation
ICD-10-CM is the United States’ clinical modification of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Tenth Revision. It is used to classify diseases and causes of illness recorded on health records, claims, and other vital information.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will require covered entities (i.e., health plans, health care providers, and health care clearinghouses) that conduct electronic HIPAA standard transactions to move from ICD-9 to the next generation ICD-10 code sets by October 1, 2015.
When it comes to ICD-10 planning, the devil is in the details. In our latest slideshow, we highlight the details to consider when looking ahead to the ICD-10 transition. This includes planning, documentation training, the structural differences in the codes, mapping differences, and how your management style could affect the transition.
Understand what ICD-10 is all about, what it looks like, and how it will affect you and your team. Learn how to create a focused and organized strategic ICD-10 plan
Evaluate and enhance clinical documentation to capture greater detail. Set up and establish documentation agreement with code factors. Get an important timeline to follow so you’re prepped and ready.
What is the status on ICD-10? In this Infographic I bring you the facts you always wanted to know & 6 foundation blocks for successful ICD-10 implementation
ICD-10-CM is the United States’ clinical modification of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Tenth Revision. It is used to classify diseases and causes of illness recorded on health records, claims, and other vital information.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will require covered entities (i.e., health plans, health care providers, and health care clearinghouses) that conduct electronic HIPAA standard transactions to move from ICD-9 to the next generation ICD-10 code sets by October 1, 2015.
When it comes to ICD-10 planning, the devil is in the details. In our latest slideshow, we highlight the details to consider when looking ahead to the ICD-10 transition. This includes planning, documentation training, the structural differences in the codes, mapping differences, and how your management style could affect the transition.
Understand what ICD-10 is all about, what it looks like, and how it will affect you and your team. Learn how to create a focused and organized strategic ICD-10 plan
Evaluate and enhance clinical documentation to capture greater detail. Set up and establish documentation agreement with code factors. Get an important timeline to follow so you’re prepped and ready.
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PYA Consulting Manager Linda ClenDening primed attendees of the Tennessee Orthopaedic Society 2014 Annual Meeting with a presentation, “Preparing Now for ICD-10-CM,” which:
Covered the transition, impact, and operational aspects of ICD-10.
Provided a high-level review of what’s new in ICD-10 coding conventions and guidelines.
Reviewed common diagnoses/documentation requirements in ICD-10.
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Many providers are operating with blinders on, completely unaware of the magnitude of the conversion and potential train wreck ahead for their reimbursement. Support your physicians through the difficult change ahead by helping them take the right steps forward to make their transition as efficient and painless as possible.
Regardless of the size of the practice, training for any implementation – especially for one as complex and far reaching as ICD-10 – can be costly and difficult to deliver. With only a year remaining to complete the transition, providers and their staff must step up to planning, training, software/system upgrades/replacements, as well as other necessary investments. ICD-10 will require a significant education investment in order to ensure accurate coding and minimize productivity loss. While large organizations may have the resources to purchase training materials or send staff to training sessions, smaller organizations may have to depend on special societies or share resources to provide the needed training.
Start the conversation with your physicians now. Help them through the transition with resources designed to get them on board with the transition now. Practice Management Institute® (PMI) is already helping practices adapt to the change with classes especially focused on the transition steps for medical offices, hosted by leading hospitals across the country. PMI’s Professional Services Department and Faculty Team is committed to providing the most up-to-date information on implementation guidelines, coding conversion steps and staff training fulfillment.
About PMI
PMI is the nation’s leading provider of continuing education for medical office professionals, with a broad curriculum of educational workshops that address the office training needs for private practice physicians. Classes are presented in leading hospitals, health care systems, and medical societies. For more than 30 years, physicians have relied on PMI to provide the latest information on managing an efficient and compliant practice.
ICD-10 coding changes are upon the home health care industry and the deadline for compliance is coming up fast. Agencies who aren’t ready by the implementation deadline face serious billing issues that will likely affect reimbursements. To prepare your agency for the road ahead, there are a few things you should know about the ICD-10 conversion.
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ICD-10 is an unknown terrain that the country is going toward. No one knows what to expect. Some expect productivity to decrease by as much as 50% due to its implementation. Some predict this new system will result in a shortage of coders. Is any of this true? This presentation will investigate the impacts – both foreseen and unforeseen – that ICD-10 implementation will have on radiology billing companies and radiology groups.
Get Ready for Industry Wide Impact of ICD-10mckessonrms
Get ready for the widespread organizational change that will occur for healthcare providers and payors by ICD-10 conversion with this guide from McKesson Practice Consulting.
10 Steps to Prepare for ICD-10
These 10 steps will help you get ready
for the transition to the ICD-10 code
sets. You may want to forward this
to those in your organization who are
working on this initiative.
For more information visit http://sites.mckesson.com/practiceconsulting/
If you aren’t ready for ICD-10 by Medicare’s Oct. 1, 2015 deadline, you could face serious consequences, including: loss of immediate cashflow; loss of irretrievable revenue; and major operational disruption.
In this presentation, get an ICD-10 overview; find out how serious this is for your business; learn about what Bonafide is doing to help; and create your ICD-10 preparedness plan.
Ready yourself for the coming ICD-10 changes and the potential impact on your practice. Educate yourself with our new eBook, "Make ICD-10 Easier!" It contains plenty of expert advice to help your practice effectively prepare for ICD-10.
ICD-10 Presentation Takes Coding to New HeightsPYA, P.C.
PYA Staff Consultant Kim-Marie Walker updated physicians at Robins Air Force Base on the latest in ICD-10 as part of “Soaring Together: A Collaboration in Continuing Medical Education."
Mediscribes, Inc. is one of the fastest growing transcription & document management systems providers in United States, We Provide rendering cost-effective consolidated
PYA Consulting Manager Linda ClenDening primed attendees of the Tennessee Orthopaedic Society 2014 Annual Meeting with a presentation, “Preparing Now for ICD-10-CM,” which:
Covered the transition, impact, and operational aspects of ICD-10.
Provided a high-level review of what’s new in ICD-10 coding conventions and guidelines.
Reviewed common diagnoses/documentation requirements in ICD-10.
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ICD-10 Implementation for Physicians WhitepaperMarie Bunch
Many providers are operating with blinders on, completely unaware of the magnitude of the conversion and potential train wreck ahead for their reimbursement. Support your physicians through the difficult change ahead by helping them take the right steps forward to make their transition as efficient and painless as possible.
Regardless of the size of the practice, training for any implementation – especially for one as complex and far reaching as ICD-10 – can be costly and difficult to deliver. With only a year remaining to complete the transition, providers and their staff must step up to planning, training, software/system upgrades/replacements, as well as other necessary investments. ICD-10 will require a significant education investment in order to ensure accurate coding and minimize productivity loss. While large organizations may have the resources to purchase training materials or send staff to training sessions, smaller organizations may have to depend on special societies or share resources to provide the needed training.
Start the conversation with your physicians now. Help them through the transition with resources designed to get them on board with the transition now. Practice Management Institute® (PMI) is already helping practices adapt to the change with classes especially focused on the transition steps for medical offices, hosted by leading hospitals across the country. PMI’s Professional Services Department and Faculty Team is committed to providing the most up-to-date information on implementation guidelines, coding conversion steps and staff training fulfillment.
About PMI
PMI is the nation’s leading provider of continuing education for medical office professionals, with a broad curriculum of educational workshops that address the office training needs for private practice physicians. Classes are presented in leading hospitals, health care systems, and medical societies. For more than 30 years, physicians have relied on PMI to provide the latest information on managing an efficient and compliant practice.
ICD-10 coding changes are upon the home health care industry and the deadline for compliance is coming up fast. Agencies who aren’t ready by the implementation deadline face serious billing issues that will likely affect reimbursements. To prepare your agency for the road ahead, there are a few things you should know about the ICD-10 conversion.
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On October 1, 2014, the U.S. healthcare system will transition from the Ninth Edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) set of diagnosis and inpatient procedure codes to the Tenth Edition of those code sets (ICD-10). Provider systems are impacted across the value chain due to ICD-10 remediation and significant changes are required across the value chain and provider business functions. This article focuses on the key challenges being faced by providers in their ICD-10 remediation journey and the mitigation approaches that providers can adopt to address them.
ICD-10 is an unknown terrain that the country is going toward. No one knows what to expect. Some expect productivity to decrease by as much as 50% due to its implementation. Some predict this new system will result in a shortage of coders. Is any of this true? This presentation will investigate the impacts – both foreseen and unforeseen – that ICD-10 implementation will have on radiology billing companies and radiology groups.
Get Ready for Industry Wide Impact of ICD-10mckessonrms
Get ready for the widespread organizational change that will occur for healthcare providers and payors by ICD-10 conversion with this guide from McKesson Practice Consulting.
10 Steps to Prepare for ICD-10
These 10 steps will help you get ready
for the transition to the ICD-10 code
sets. You may want to forward this
to those in your organization who are
working on this initiative.
For more information visit http://sites.mckesson.com/practiceconsulting/
If you aren’t ready for ICD-10 by Medicare’s Oct. 1, 2015 deadline, you could face serious consequences, including: loss of immediate cashflow; loss of irretrievable revenue; and major operational disruption.
In this presentation, get an ICD-10 overview; find out how serious this is for your business; learn about what Bonafide is doing to help; and create your ICD-10 preparedness plan.
Ready yourself for the coming ICD-10 changes and the potential impact on your practice. Educate yourself with our new eBook, "Make ICD-10 Easier!" It contains plenty of expert advice to help your practice effectively prepare for ICD-10.
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2. WHAT IS ICD-10
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International
Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related
Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list
by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Previously ICD-9 housed 13,000 codes, where as
the ICD-10 code set allow for approximately
68,000 codes.
3. WHEN IS THE ICD-10 COMPLIANCE
DEADLINE
The ICD-10 deadline to Comply is October
1st
, 2014.
CMS announced their final rule regarding
the ICD-10 compliance date on 08/24/12.
4. WHAT DOES COMPLIANCE MEAN
ICD-10 compliance means that a HIPAA-covered
entity uses ICD-10 codes for health care services
provided on or after October 1, 2014.
ICD-9 diagnosis codes cannot be used for
services provided on or after this date.
Everyone covered by HIPAA must be ICD-10
compliant starting on October 1, 2014.
5. WILL ICD-10 REPLACE CURRENT
PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY
CODING
No. It does not affect CPT coding for
outpatient procedures and physician services. ICD-
10-
PCS codes are for hospital inpatient procedures
only.
6. WHO IS AFFECTED BY THE
TRANSITION
TO ICD-10
Everyone covered by HIPAA!!
This includes health care providers and payers who
do not deal with Medicare claims. Organizations
that are not covered by HIPAA, but use ICD-9
codes should be aware that their coding may
become obsolete if they do not transition to ICD-10.
7. DO STATE MEDICAID PROGRAMS
NEED TO TRANSITION TO ICD-10
Yes. Everyone covered by HIPAA.
8. WHAT HAPPENS IF I DON’T SWITCH
TO ICD-10
Claims cannot be processed
Important to note, however, that claims for services
provided before October 1, 2014, must use ICD-9
diagnosis.
9. WILL I NEED TO USE BOTH ICD-9
AND ICD-10 CODES DURING THE
TRANSITION
Practice management systems must be able
to accommodate both ICD-9 and ICD-10
codes until all claims and other transactions
for services before October 1, 2014, have
been processed and completed.
10. IF I TRANSITION EARLY TO ICD-10,
WILL CMS BE ABLE TO PROCESS MY
CLAIMS
No. However, organizations will need to work
with their internal team and business trading partners
to
test their software systems from beginning to end. This
involves testing claims, eligibility verification, quality
reporting and other transactions and processes using
ICD-10 to make sure the new code set can be
processed
correctly.
11. CODES CHANGE EVERY YEAR, SO
WHY IS THE TRANSITION TO ICD-10
DIFFERENT
ICD-10 codes are completely different from ICD-9.
ICD-9 codes are mostly numeric and have 3 to 5 digits.
ICD-10 codes are alphanumeric and contain 3 to 7 characters.
ICD-10 is more robust and descriptive with “one-to-many” matches to ICD-9 in
some instances.
ICD-10 codes will be updated every year.
ICD-9 codes will not continue to be updated after October 1, 2014.
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12. WHY IS THE SWITCH TO ICD-10
HAPPENING
ICD-9 is 30 years old.
ICD-9 has outdated and obsolete terms.
ICD-9 is inconsistent with current medical practices.
ICD-9 structure limits the number of new codes that can be
created, and many categories are full.
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ICD-10 will accommodate newly developed diagnoses and
procedures, innovations in technology and treatment,
performance-based payment systems, and more accurate billing.
ICD-10 coding will make the billing process more streamlined
and efficient, and this will also allow for more precise methods of
detecting fraud.
13. WHAT SHOULD PROVIDERS DO TO
PREPARE FOR THE TRANSITION TO
ICD-10
Steps To Take Now: Some activities might not be necessary
for small practices where one or two people are handling the transition
activities.
• Establish a transition team or ICD-10 project
coordinator.
• Develop a Plan.
Include a timeline that identifies tasks to be completed and
crucial milestones/relationships, task owners, resources
needed, and estimated start and end times.
Preview: CMS 1500 (02-12) – List of Changes
14. WHAT SHOULD PROVIDERS DO TO
PREPARE FOR THE TRANSITION TO
ICD-10
(Continued)
•
Determine how ICD-10 will affect your organization. Start by
reviewing how and where you currently use ICD-9.
i.e. authorizations/pre-certifications, physician orders, medical records, superbills/encounter
forms, practice management and billing systems, and coding manuals.
•
Review how ICD-10 will affect clinical documentation
requirements and electronic health record (EHR) templates.
•
Communicate the plan, timeline, and new system changes and
processes.
Ensure that leadership and staff understand the extent of the effort the transition requires.
15. WHAT SHOULD PROVIDERS DO TO
PREPARE FOR THE TRANSITION TO
ICD-10(Continued)
•
Secure a Budget.
•
Talk with your payers, billing, and IT staff, and
Vendors.
•
Coordinate your transition plans.
among your trading partners and evaluate contracts with payers
and vendors for policy revisions, testing timelines, and costs
related to the ICD-10 transition.
• Create a testing plan.
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16. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO MAKE
SURE YOUR ICD-10 SYSTEMS ARE
WORKING PROPERLY
• Plan to test systems early.
• Test claims, eligibility verification,
quality reporting, and processes from
beginning to end.
17. STEPS IN THE TESTING PHASE
Work with practice management and/or EHR and
coders/billers to develop processes and systems using ICD-
10 codes.
Determine when you will be ready to test, and work with
payers and any clearinghouses or billing services that you
use to schedule testing.
Develop a testing plan that outlines key dates and
milestones for when tests should be completed.
CMS implementation timelines and checklists are available
for small and medium practices.
Preview: ICD-10 Timeline
18. ENSURING A SMOOTH TRANSITION
Have a plan in place and make sure it documents
the steps being followed and the dates that
milestones will be achieved.
Include vendor tasks.
Establish an emergency fund to cover unexpected
costs and possible reimbursement delays.
Preview: Payer Mix – Tenncare Trending
19. WHAT SHOULD PAYERS DO TO
PREPARE FOR THE TRANSITION
Ask clearinghouses what their timelines are for
testing and implementation from beginning to end.
Review and evaluate trading partner agreements
and contracts.
20. WHAT SHOULD SOFTWARE VENDORS
AND CLEARINGHOUSES BE DOING TO
PREPARE THEIR CUSTOMERS FOR THE
TRANSITION
Products and services will be obsolete if steps
are not taken to prepare.
Please note, clearinghouse services do not convert ICD-9 to ICD-10 for
providers and payers.
CMS has resources to help vendors,
clearinghouses, and prepare for a smooth
transition.
21. WHERE CAN I FIND THE ICD-10
CODES
Available free of charge on AAPC and
CMS’s website.
22. WHY SHOULD I PREPARE NOW FOR
THE ICD-10 TRANSITION
It’s all about having a focus on your long-term goals
and modifying your day-to-day operations to support
the transition.
The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will change how
you do business. You will need to devote staff time and
financial resources for transition activities.
The transition will go much more smoothly for
organizations that plan ahead and prepare now.
23. TRAINING PROVIDERS AND STAFF
WILL NEED
American Health Information Management Association
recommends training begin no more than six to nine months
before the October 1, 2014.
Coders in physician practices will need to learn ICD-10
diagnosis coding only, ICD-10 coding training may be
integrated into the CEUs that certified coders must take to
maintain their credentials.
Some high-level ICD-10 training will be required earlier to
learn and understand how the structure and granularity of
the ICD-10 codes will affect clinical documentation.
24. WHERE CAN I FIND TRAINING
OPPORTUNITIES
CMS collaborated with Medscape Education on two
video lectures and an expert articles are available to
anyone who registers with Medscape at no cost.
Continuing medical education credits are available to
physicians who complete the activities and take a post-
test.
ICD-10: A Guide for Small and Medium Practices.
www.cms.gov/ICD10
25. WHERE CAN I FIND THE LATEST
ICD-10 NEWS AND RESOURCES
Sign up for the CMS ICD-10 Email Updates
www.cms.gov/ICD10
26. WHERE CAN I FIND THE LATEST
ICD-10 NEWS AND RESOURCES
Sign up for the CMS ICD-10 Email Updates
www.cms.gov/ICD10