Tag: ICD-10

On July 6, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) released a joint statement about their efforts to help the provider community get ready for ICD-10. This statement included guidance from CMS that allows for flexibility in the claims auditing and quality reporting processes. In response to…

Nearly 25 percent of physicians’ offices will not be ready when ICD-10 is implemented Oct. 1, and another 25 percent are unsure of their state of readiness, according to a new survey by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health information technology. “Without a dedicated…

In response to a request from the Medical Association, Alabama Medicaid will not penalize physicians for coding errors under ICD-10 as long as a valid ICD-10 code from the correct “family of codes” is used. This follows a similar policy by CMS for Medicare Part B claims announced in early July. “The inclusion of a…

Despite our best efforts, ICD-10 will be implemented Oct. 1, 2015. No more delays. It’s going to happen next Thursday, Oct. 1, ready or not. Here comes ICD-10. While the Medical Association has been and remains an opponent of the forced switch to ICD-10, we fought it and in 2014 got a one-year delay. We…

<iframe src=”//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-TZX8XN” height=”0″ width=”0″ style=”display:none;visibility:hidden”></iframe>Ready or not, tomorrow is the day. While the Medical Association has been and remains an opponent of the forced switch to ICD-10, we fought it and in 2014 got a one-year delay. We continued fighting the mandated changeover in 2015, but when it became evident it would be implemented, we…

Medical Association President Buddy Smith, M.D., has had it with government mandates in medicine, likening ICD-10 to the proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back.” “It has gotten to the point of absurdity. We need more of the ‘practice’ of medicine and less of the ‘process’ of delivering medical care. We are forced to jump…

During the launch of ICD-10 on Oct. 1, we wanted to know how the day was going for our physicians and their staff, so we asked them. Below are a few responses we received about the implementation of the new billing system. Keep in mind the true test of the implementation of ICD-10 won’t be…

It’s been just more than a week since the debut of ICD-10, and reports of its implementation have been mixed. While some physicians and their staff had little trouble, others had a very long day of coding issues. Keeping in mind the true test of ICD-10’s implementation won’t be realized for a few more weeks,…