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Use GEMs as a starting point, not an end point | ICD-10 Trainer

Use GEMs as a starting point, not an end point

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange’s (WEDI) most recent survey on ICD-10 readiness included a particularly alarming (at least to me) statistic: Approximately 25% of the 324 providers who responded to the survey plan only to do crosswalking from ICD-9 to ICD-10.

That percentage roughly doubled in a year and it represents a pretty big concern for anyone interested in data integrity and getting paid.

Here’s why. General Equivalence Mapping (GEMs) like those CMS posts and other crosswalks are tools to help coders and, like any tool, they have their good points and bad points. Good point: they give coders a place to start. Bad point: they don’t get you to the final code

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