Insurance giants unite to make ICD-10 a little easier | Healthcare Dive
By Marisa Torrieri | November 25, 2014
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A newly-formed consortium featuring Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Humana and several other payers are working together on strategies to help smaller healthcare providers get ready for ICD-10, which is less than a year away.
The consortium's short-term plan is to meet with healthcare provider specialty groups (such as cardiology or pediatrics) to help them focus on learning how to translate the ICD-9 codes they submit most often into ICD-10 codes.
"The consortium approach is in response to concerns raised in testimony on Capitol Hill at recent NCVHS hearings that payers may not be able to test with a large number of providers," said Sid Hebert, director of the ICD-10 implementation team at Humana. "This approach allows for interested providers to evaluate their coding proficiency with real-world examples, keyed to specialties, through a dynamic interchange with cooperating payers."
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