Do Delays in ICD-10 Implementation Teach the Wr...
From ehrintelligence.com - November 13, 8:17 AM
The healthcare industry has less than a year to complete its ICD-10 implementation efforts to be compliant by Oct. 1, 2015, but that additional time means nothing if providers continue working with the wrong kind of EHR, practice management, and health IT vendors.
That is the opinion of James Libecco, MD, a single practitioner at Akron Skin Center in Ohio. According to the dermatologist, his practice and its technology were ready for ICD-10 to go live last month. Instead, Akron Skin Center is in a holding pattern as it awaits the actual transition to the newer code set in 2015.
As Libecco explains in this one-on-one interview with EHRIntelligence.com, dual-coding in ICD-9 and ICD-10 provides a short-term strategy for bridging the gap between the two code sets but ultimately the lesson learned from the most recent ICD-10 delay is a negative one and one that could prove costly to secondary and tertiary uses of quality data moving forward.
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