Newly Formed Consortium Working to Ease Transition to ICD-10
Written by Mark Spivey | Friday, 21 November 2014 15:00
The countdown is on.
With less than a year to go before the scheduled implementation of ICD-10, healthcare industry chatter about the new code set is reaching a fever pitch. Because ICD-10 is about overall system readiness, the discussion focuses mostly on how to get ready, what barriers to overall readiness exist, and what the industry can do to remove those barriers. Problems will inevitably arise if only part of the industry is ready and other parts aren’t.
With that in mind, certain groups are already hard at work to identify ways to make the transition easier for providers that are finding it difficult to get started. One such group is a newly formed consortium featuring Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Humana, and several other payors that are working together on strategies to help smaller providers get ready.
The consortium’s short-term plan is simple: meet with healthcare provider specialty groups (such as cardiology, dermatology, etc.) to help them focus on ICD-9 codes that each specialty group submits most often, then learn the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-approved ICD-10 translations for those codes. By starting with a specialty, it is easy to narrow down a list of the most commonly submitted diagnosis codes.
The transition can become much more manageable when specialized healthcare providers can concentrate closely on the diagnosis codes they need to use in order to conduct business. The remainder of the code translation efforts can occur at a later date.
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