RSS Feed- ICD-10 Delay One Year According to Proposed RuleAn ICD-10 delay of one year, pushing the effective date for ICD-10-CM/PCS to October 1, 2014, was part of a proposed rule recently released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The rule also includes a standard for a … Continue reading → […]
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ICD-10 Delay One Year According to Proposed Rule
An ICD-10 delay of one year, pushing the effective date for ICD-10-CM/PCS to October 1, 2014, was part of a proposed rule recently released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The rule also includes a standard for a … Continue reading
ICD-10 Implementation Delay Response by MGMA
The ICD-10 Implementation Delay has another advocate, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)-American College of Medical Practice Executives (ACMPE). Uniquely situated in the medical administrative world, the MGMA-ACMPE is the premier association for professional administrators and leaders of medical group practices. … Continue reading
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Positive Impacts of ICD-10-CM on Patient Care
Since the Department of Health and Human Services has announced that it plans on delaying the implementation of ICD-10 largely, if not entirely, due to the American Medical Association’s inability to support its membership in a critically important update to … Continue reading
ICD-10 Implementation Timeline Postponed
In a press release today, Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary, announced that the ICD-10 implementation timeline would be postponed from its current October 1, 2013 deadline. This is a disheartening turn of events and is clearly related to … Continue reading
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Most ICD-10-CM Mapping Choices for a Single ICD-9-CM Code
ICD-10-CM mapping, while not a way to code, is a useful tool to see the patterns of rules that organize ICD-10-CM during the time leading up to the ICD-10-CM implementation. At Provistas, we were curious about which ICD-9-CM code had … Continue reading
AMA Calls to Abandon ICD-10 Get Louder
On January 17th, 2012 the other shoe dropped. As I wrote in a prior article, the AMA’s laughable obstructionist November policy against ICD-10 was pure politics. Well, now the letter has gone out to the politicians making the required demand … Continue reading
ICD-10 Myths and Facts per CMS
In case you have not read it yet, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ICD-10 myths and facts sheet is quite a comprehensive two-page document that debunks a lot of myths concerning the inevitable coding system. The quick take home: … Continue reading
Reducing ICD-10 Training Costs
In a recent past post, I highlighted ways that physicians were reducing ICD-10 training costs by taking advantage of options that are being presented in collaborative ways. AHIMA published an article last year that suggests that hospitals may not be … Continue reading