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Top 10 Meaningful Use challenges include ICD-10by Tom Sullivan
Despite their massive scopes, ICD-10 and Meaningful Use thus far have been largely disconnected, save for a few lone voices suggesting that healthcare organizations – as well as CMS (The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) – consider the projects in lockstep. Indeed, it may prove easier and less expensive in the long-run to plot both migrations simultaneously.
Recent Posts
ICD-10 on wrong side of medical-loss ratio in NAIC's draft proposal?
ICD-10 looks a bit beleaguered this week. That's after state insurance commissioners issued a proposal under which health insurers would not be permitted to consider ICD-10 within their medical-loss ratio (MLR) – and physician and hospital organizations backed the idea. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
AHIMA: Health org's 'lagging' with HIPAA 5010, ICD-10
Joining the growing collective of consultancies, industry bodies and healthcare writers crying out that providers and payers are letting time slip away without making enough HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 progress, AHIMA reported that it's own member base, too, is off to a late start. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
CMS: Don't forget about HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10
Just in case that little nagging voice in your head cantankerously whispering “HIPAA 5010 … ICD-10,” while you're trying to sleep has taken leave during August, CMS issued a public reminder that the compliance dates are approaching. Read More
Date: Aug 27, 2010
Survival guide for HIPAA 5010: The new medical claims messiah
As providers and payers face the initial HIPAA 5010 milestone – Level 1 Compliance come January 1, 2011 – many folks charged with instituting the changes are not at all certain of how to endure the transition. Read More
Date: Aug 26, 2010
ICD-10 looks a bit beleaguered this week. That's after state insurance commissioners issued a proposal under which health insurers would not be permitted to consider ICD-10 within their medical-loss ratio (MLR) – and physician and hospital organizations backed the idea. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
AHIMA: Health org's 'lagging' with HIPAA 5010, ICD-10
Joining the growing collective of consultancies, industry bodies and healthcare writers crying out that providers and payers are letting time slip away without making enough HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 progress, AHIMA reported that it's own member base, too, is off to a late start. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
CMS: Don't forget about HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10
Just in case that little nagging voice in your head cantankerously whispering “HIPAA 5010 … ICD-10,” while you're trying to sleep has taken leave during August, CMS issued a public reminder that the compliance dates are approaching. Read More
Date: Aug 27, 2010
Survival guide for HIPAA 5010: The new medical claims messiah
As providers and payers face the initial HIPAA 5010 milestone – Level 1 Compliance come January 1, 2011 – many folks charged with instituting the changes are not at all certain of how to endure the transition. Read More
Date: Aug 26, 2010
Recent Podcasts
recommendations for preparing, and a contingency plan. 
recently-appointed director of ICD-10 program management and compliance at Precyse Solutions about the issues healthcare organizations face, particularly regarding a potential dearth of coders, and handling what is destined to become historical ICD-9 data once the October 1, 2013 compliance day comes.Recent Comments
AAPC's 16 steps that ease ICD-10 implementation
Posted on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 - 04:03 PM
Mr. Davis,
Thanks for writing back.
You and I could battle back and forth on what constitutes an organized movement, what will happen in the November elections and beyond, and what each of us might do in the hypothetical event that we were serving on a congressional panel weighing whether or not to postpone ICD-10 – and, you know, that might be even fun, if only for us, because I stand in opposition to the points you expressed.
Rather, I'll try to advance this conversation with another question that might help ICD10Watch readers: Do you advise ...
Posted by tomsullivan On Sep 02, 2010 Read More
AAPC's 16 steps that ease ICD-10 implementation
Posted on Wed, Sep 01, 2010 - 03:54 PM
Tom, Thanks for your comments. I welcome your questions and do not consider them attacks. While it is not my title, I consider myself a "reporter" too as part of my job is to keep the 100,000+ physicians, hospitals and third party payers we serve informed about issues that affect them. With regard to organized opposition, I refer you to testimony regarding implementation of the HITECH Act before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health presented by Roland A. Goertz, MD, MBA, FAAFP, President Elect of the 94,000+ member AAFP on July 27, 2010 (http://energycommerce.house.gov/documents/20100727/Goertz.Testimony.07.27.2010.pdf). On page 5 of his testimony Dr. ...
Posted by pmiconline.com On Sep 01, 2010 Read More
AAPC's 16 steps that ease ICD-10 implementation
Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 - 04:25 PM
Mr. Davis, I've got a burning question for you! First, though, thanks for your comments. Since I wrote the above story I'll weigh-in here by reiterating that the 16 steps concern what might be considered a full deployment cycle and are NOT just about training at all. You were right in pointing out that it's a bit early for in-depth training -- though it may not be too soon to start planning for such training as AHIMA has explained to me that just fitting all the puzzle pieces together to form a training picture will likely consume more time than folks expect. ...
Posted by tomsullivan On Aug 25, 2010 Read More
AAPC's 16 steps that ease ICD-10 implementation
Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 - 02:48 PM
Ms. Grider: Thanks for your comments. I assure you that I'm looking at this from every perspective. I have written/edited over 200 books on coding, billing, practice management, and have given hundreds of seminars on data processing to health care professionals. In addition I am an experienced systems analyst and IT manager and have written over a million lines of code for computer systems. Plus, I was a former executive at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and have worked in virtually all segments of the health care industry. I clearly understand that it's "more than learning the codes." However, most of the work will be ...
Posted by pmiconline.com On Aug 25, 2010 Read More
AAPC's 16 steps that ease ICD-10 implementation
Posted on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 - 11:20 AM
Mr. James B Davis We appreciate the comments made, but you may only be looking at this from a coder’s perspective. Yes, we agree that now is too early to learn the full code set, as we stated in the March 24th article you cited. (We don’t even offer comprehensive code-set training yet.) There is, however, so much more to ICD-10 than simply learning the codes. ICD-10 will change everything in today’s physicians practice. While coders may be able to wait to learn the codes, a practice manager waiting until 2012 to begin the implementation process could be making a ...
Posted by benjolley On Aug 19, 2010 Read More
Posted on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 - 04:03 PM
Mr. Davis,
Thanks for writing back.
You and I could battle back and forth on what constitutes an organized movement, what will happen in the November elections and beyond, and what each of us might do in the hypothetical event that we were serving on a congressional panel weighing whether or not to postpone ICD-10 – and, you know, that might be even fun, if only for us, because I stand in opposition to the points you expressed.
Rather, I'll try to advance this conversation with another question that might help ICD10Watch readers: Do you advise ...
Posted by tomsullivan On Sep 02, 2010 Read More
AAPC's 16 steps that ease ICD-10 implementation
Posted on Wed, Sep 01, 2010 - 03:54 PM
Tom, Thanks for your comments. I welcome your questions and do not consider them attacks. While it is not my title, I consider myself a "reporter" too as part of my job is to keep the 100,000+ physicians, hospitals and third party payers we serve informed about issues that affect them. With regard to organized opposition, I refer you to testimony regarding implementation of the HITECH Act before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health presented by Roland A. Goertz, MD, MBA, FAAFP, President Elect of the 94,000+ member AAFP on July 27, 2010 (http://energycommerce.house.gov/documents/20100727/Goertz.Testimony.07.27.2010.pdf). On page 5 of his testimony Dr. ...
Posted by pmiconline.com On Sep 01, 2010 Read More
AAPC's 16 steps that ease ICD-10 implementation
Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 - 04:25 PM
Mr. Davis, I've got a burning question for you! First, though, thanks for your comments. Since I wrote the above story I'll weigh-in here by reiterating that the 16 steps concern what might be considered a full deployment cycle and are NOT just about training at all. You were right in pointing out that it's a bit early for in-depth training -- though it may not be too soon to start planning for such training as AHIMA has explained to me that just fitting all the puzzle pieces together to form a training picture will likely consume more time than folks expect. ...
Posted by tomsullivan On Aug 25, 2010 Read More
AAPC's 16 steps that ease ICD-10 implementation
Posted on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 - 02:48 PM
Ms. Grider: Thanks for your comments. I assure you that I'm looking at this from every perspective. I have written/edited over 200 books on coding, billing, practice management, and have given hundreds of seminars on data processing to health care professionals. In addition I am an experienced systems analyst and IT manager and have written over a million lines of code for computer systems. Plus, I was a former executive at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and have worked in virtually all segments of the health care industry. I clearly understand that it's "more than learning the codes." However, most of the work will be ...
Posted by pmiconline.com On Aug 25, 2010 Read More
AAPC's 16 steps that ease ICD-10 implementation
Posted on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 - 11:20 AM
Mr. James B Davis We appreciate the comments made, but you may only be looking at this from a coder’s perspective. Yes, we agree that now is too early to learn the full code set, as we stated in the March 24th article you cited. (We don’t even offer comprehensive code-set training yet.) There is, however, so much more to ICD-10 than simply learning the codes. ICD-10 will change everything in today’s physicians practice. While coders may be able to wait to learn the codes, a practice manager waiting until 2012 to begin the implementation process could be making a ...
Posted by benjolley On Aug 19, 2010 Read More
