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By Robert Anglen for azcentral.com Eileen Schraan’s doctor told her to call 911. The 86-year-old woman had complained of shortness of breath and pain in her jaw, classic heart-attack symptoms. She was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to the emergency room. Schraan was kept under observation for three days last year at Banner Baywood…
Carrie Pallardy for Beckersasc.com The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed the new deadline for the switch to ICD-10 as Oct. 1, 2015. Here are five things to know about the new implementation date and the healthcare industry’s response. 1. The law that derailed 2014 implementation. On March 31, the U.S. Senate passed the…
By Dave Baumgardner, Director of Information Management, Union Hospital, for Health Management Technology Speech technology improves productivity and reduces costs for community hospital. Union Hospital’s investments in digital dictation and transcription over the years have not only improved its documentation productivity and reduced costs, but have also helped prepare our hospital for the upcoming ICD-10…
By Becky DeGrosky, Product Manager at TruCode & Chris Casto, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Dolbey for Advance for Health Information Professionals Computer-assisted coding and encoder technology are changing workflow for ICD-10 readiness. The medical coding career has not experienced a significant change event since the introduction of DRGs in 1984. For decades,…
By: Bernie Monegain, Editor for HealthcareITNews.com The American Health Information Management Association’s 2014 ICD-10 and Computer Assisted Coding Summit April 22-23 in the nation’s capital featured the latest industry reaction to the ICD-10 delay. Summit participants had the chance to share opinions in a real-time poll conducted via text that addressed a variety of key…
By Jeff Tennant and Kenneth Fody, Esq. for Government Health IT The delay in ICD-10 implementation was met last week with equal parts relief and frustration. Health plans and healthcare providers who were ready are understandably frustrated by the delay; those that were seriously behind in preparations breathed a deep sigh of relief. While the…
By Kaveh Safavi, M.D., J.D. for InformationWeek-HealthCare Healthcare organizations have at least four options for dealing with the delayed implementation of new diagnostic codes. Many of the complexities of medicine are distilled down to a vocabulary of diagnostic codes, called the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which are used by doctors, insurers, and hospitals. Today’s…
By Austin Cameron for Healthcare Finance News It is now official: you must wait until 2015 to use ICD-10 code W6112XA – struck by macaw. President Barack Obama has indeed signed the SGR patch legislation – which includes another delay of ICD-10 implementation, to Oct. 1, 2015. Reactions within the healthcare community to news of…
By Joe Carlson, Joseph Conn and Andis Robeznieks for Modern Healthcare Executives at Catholic Health Initiatives had to roll out new electronic health-record systems across 89 hospitals nationwide while meeting the Oct. 1 federal deadline for implementing the complex new ICD-10 coding system. They knew the two big health information technology tasks couldn’t both be…
Article by Chris Dimick, Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of AHIMA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on March 31, 2014 and is republished here with permission. The Senate voted today to approve a bill that will delay the implementation of ICD-10-CM/PCS by at least one year. The bill now moves to…