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By Cathie Wilde, RHIA, CCS, AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer for ICD10 monitor Monday, 11 January 2016 During the transition to ICD-10, external cause codes – the codes that capture specific details about an injury or health event – received a bad reputation. Many ICD-10 naysayers highlighted what they viewed as the absurdity of them. In an…
By Dr. Jon Elion for ChartWise Medical Systems, Inc. In my blog entry of July 8, 2015, I summarized some of the history of the first international classification of diseases, a process that started in 1853 and was finally approved in 1893. While this was not officially called “ICD-1”, it was in fact the first international…
By Akanksha Jayanthi for Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review After three delays and much industry opposition, the United States’ healthcare industry transitioned Oct. 1 to ICD-10, catching up with the latest version of the international classification of diseases codes. The transition has been compared to the Y2K scare at the turn of the millennium,…
by David Weldon for Healthcare It News For them, the best hope at this point is to bring in an outside firm to handle the effort, experts say. After a number of delays, and much anticipation, the implementation of ICD-10 is finally underway as of Oct. 1. But with all the competition in the job market…
By Hannah Galvin, MD for Healthcare IT News As ICD-10 draws closer, you may feel like you’re stuck in one of the five stages of grief: Denial: “ICD-what? Excuse me, I have patients to see.” Anger: “I don’t have time for ICD-10! The government obviously doesn’t understand the practice of medicine. Why would anyone ever…
By Jennifer Bresnick for Health IT Analytics With the release of April’s ICD-10 end-to-end-testing week statistics, CMS hopes that evidence is building for a less-painful-than-expected transition. The 88 percent claims acceptance rate generated during the most recent…Read the rest of the article here.
By Dr. Jonathan Elion, MD, FACC for HealthTECH Zone The Photographic Painting The value of a new technology is often not understood for many years after its invention. The first film cameras (remember those?) were initially used to capture landscapes, still life studies and portraits. In that regard, they were acting as a “photographic painting”,…
By iHealthBeat The ICD-10 implementation delay has negatively affected stakeholders’ progress preparing for the new code sets, according to a survey by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Healthcare IT News reports (McCann, Healthcare IT News, 4/6). Background U.S. health care organizations are working to transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets by Oct. 1…
By Akanksha Jayanthi for Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review On March 20, CMS released its proposed rule for meaningful use stage 3, which is open for public comment through May 29. Here are nine things to know about stage 3 of meaningful use. Stage 3 is expected to be the final stage of the…
Anecdotal evidence suggests the coding shift might chase physicians into retirement. By Susan Morse for Healthcare Finance News If the rumors are true, ICD-10 is not going to solve the physician shortage. Too bad the hard evidence to suggest doctors near retirement age are calling it quits by Sept. 30 to avoid the switch to…