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Five elements needed in an ICD-10 training planby Carl Natale
Healthcare providers need to create an ICD-10 training plan that prepares all staff members not just the medical coders. The plan needs to make five decisions:
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How date of service can trump the ICD-10 compliance deadline
Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for healthcare IT, explained the deadline is the deadline while speaking Monday at the the HIMSS Media ICD-10 Forum. Read More
Date: Jun 18, 2013
Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for healthcare IT, explained the deadline is the deadline while speaking Monday at the the HIMSS Media ICD-10 Forum. Read More
Date: Jun 18, 2013
Test your ICD-10 coding knowledge with a monthly challenge
If a physician diagnosed a patient with "status post below knee amputation, diabetes mellitus with peripheral angiopathy," what would you code? Read More
Date: Jun 17, 2013
If a physician diagnosed a patient with "status post below knee amputation, diabetes mellitus with peripheral angiopathy," what would you code? Read More
Date: Jun 17, 2013
Why is the state of ICD-10 preparation in such a sad state?
I confess that I almost forgot about the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). It's reluctance to embrace ICD-10 implementation has been mostly overshadowed by the American Medical Association's (AMA) vigorous opposition and congressional attacks. Read More
Date: Jun 14, 2013
I confess that I almost forgot about the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). It's reluctance to embrace ICD-10 implementation has been mostly overshadowed by the American Medical Association's (AMA) vigorous opposition and congressional attacks. Read More
Date: Jun 14, 2013
What to expect from EHR vendors during the ICD-10 transition
Unfortunately, healthcare providers will not be able to buy or upgrade an electronic health record (EHR) system and call themselves ICD-10 compliant. Read More
Date: Jun 12, 2013
Unfortunately, healthcare providers will not be able to buy or upgrade an electronic health record (EHR) system and call themselves ICD-10 compliant. Read More
Date: Jun 12, 2013
Recent Comments
Effort to stop ICD-10 implementation gains foothold in U.S. Senate
Posted on Sat, Jun 15, 2013 - 02:56 PM
That's right, they always go on about the specificity of the Y codes, which replace the E codes. Our real problem is going to be persuading clinicians to actually document "DM II" or "Secondary Diabetes Milletus" instead of just not otherwise specified diabetes milletus.
Posted by keithdiederich On Jun 15, 2013 Read More
Four reasons why ICD-10 matters
Posted on Sat, Jun 15, 2013 - 02:37 PM
EMR adoption payoffs will always be a fair ways out, and then only if the preparation is done right. EMRs can't be dropped in place of paper charts the way that word processors were dropped in place of typewriters. You have to plan a new workflow to benefit from the new system. EMRs worked for the VA. They did it right -- open source, sharing code, with the modules that worked well getting the widest adoption. The problem with dealing with a vendor such as Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, etc. is that they are locked in. VistA is
Posted by keithdiederich On Jun 15, 2013 Read More
Four reasons why ICD-10 matters
Posted on Thu, Jun 13, 2013 - 02:17 AM
Even AMA admitted this year that EMR's reduce productivity, increase cost due to ripoff software prices and increase cost of patient care. This guey stuff you quote is all copied from the carefully fudged 2005 RAND corp. study. Even Rand admitts it was wrong! The first class action lawsuit against Allscript just got started by a physicians group. Looks like only the layer will get something out of this. ICD10, EMR, ACA are all going to fail to do anything for patient or health care in general: there are government imposed schemes to allow big business a greater piece of
Posted by lerel On Jun 13, 2013 Read More
Apparently the HIPAA 5010 transition isn't over
Posted on Wed, Jun 12, 2013 - 12:38 PM
NUCC, the governing body over CMS-1500 forms, released a statement on 4/23/13 that version 2/12 of the professional claim form is awaiting CMS approval. In it, field 21 Diagnosis or Nature of Illness or Injury was modified to include 'ICD Ind' where '9'=ICD-9 and '0'=ICD-10. The UB04 already has a place for ICD indicator today. http://www.nucc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=159&Itemid=137 Hope this helps, Gina Park, Axiom Systems
Posted by gyp7318 On Jun 12, 2013 Read More
Coming to a mobile phone near you: ICD-10 apps
Posted on Fri, May 31, 2013 - 05:33 AM
Apps that enable healthcare workers to look up ICD codes are steadily creeping into app stores and smartphones. Here’s one writer’s quick review of the trend: “Screenshots and demos of these applications are about as slick as ICD-10 codes can be, and they’ll likely make physicians and any staff that use them look pretty good, but it’s perhaps too early to tell how useful any of them will prove come deadline day, October 1, 2013,” ICD10 Watch’s Tom Sullivan writes. Sullivan also quoted IDC analyst Janice Young on ICD10 apps: “Most coding is done by computers or office staff which may ...
Posted by rose blue On May 31, 2013 Read More
Posted on Sat, Jun 15, 2013 - 02:56 PM
That's right, they always go on about the specificity of the Y codes, which replace the E codes. Our real problem is going to be persuading clinicians to actually document "DM II" or "Secondary Diabetes Milletus" instead of just not otherwise specified diabetes milletus.
Posted by keithdiederich On Jun 15, 2013 Read More
Four reasons why ICD-10 matters
Posted on Sat, Jun 15, 2013 - 02:37 PM
EMR adoption payoffs will always be a fair ways out, and then only if the preparation is done right. EMRs can't be dropped in place of paper charts the way that word processors were dropped in place of typewriters. You have to plan a new workflow to benefit from the new system. EMRs worked for the VA. They did it right -- open source, sharing code, with the modules that worked well getting the widest adoption. The problem with dealing with a vendor such as Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, etc. is that they are locked in. VistA is
Posted by keithdiederich On Jun 15, 2013 Read More
Four reasons why ICD-10 matters
Posted on Thu, Jun 13, 2013 - 02:17 AM
Even AMA admitted this year that EMR's reduce productivity, increase cost due to ripoff software prices and increase cost of patient care. This guey stuff you quote is all copied from the carefully fudged 2005 RAND corp. study. Even Rand admitts it was wrong! The first class action lawsuit against Allscript just got started by a physicians group. Looks like only the layer will get something out of this. ICD10, EMR, ACA are all going to fail to do anything for patient or health care in general: there are government imposed schemes to allow big business a greater piece of
Posted by lerel On Jun 13, 2013 Read More
Apparently the HIPAA 5010 transition isn't over
Posted on Wed, Jun 12, 2013 - 12:38 PM
NUCC, the governing body over CMS-1500 forms, released a statement on 4/23/13 that version 2/12 of the professional claim form is awaiting CMS approval. In it, field 21 Diagnosis or Nature of Illness or Injury was modified to include 'ICD Ind' where '9'=ICD-9 and '0'=ICD-10. The UB04 already has a place for ICD indicator today. http://www.nucc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=159&Itemid=137 Hope this helps, Gina Park, Axiom Systems
Posted by gyp7318 On Jun 12, 2013 Read More
Coming to a mobile phone near you: ICD-10 apps
Posted on Fri, May 31, 2013 - 05:33 AM
Apps that enable healthcare workers to look up ICD codes are steadily creeping into app stores and smartphones. Here’s one writer’s quick review of the trend: “Screenshots and demos of these applications are about as slick as ICD-10 codes can be, and they’ll likely make physicians and any staff that use them look pretty good, but it’s perhaps too early to tell how useful any of them will prove come deadline day, October 1, 2013,” ICD10 Watch’s Tom Sullivan writes. Sullivan also quoted IDC analyst Janice Young on ICD10 apps: “Most coding is done by computers or office staff which may ...
Posted by rose blue On May 31, 2013 Read More
