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Payer consortium to help small practices switch to ICD-10 - FierceHealthIT

November 24, 2014 | By Susan D. Hall



Payers have joined together to help smaller providers make the switch to ICD-10, reports ICD-10 Monitor.



Consortium members, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Humana, and other payers plan to meet with provider specialty groups, such as cardiology and dermatology, to help them translate the ICD-9 codes they use most into the ICD-10 codes. They can pick up the other codes later, according to the article.



The consortium effort grew out of concerns raised in testimony in Washington, D.C., that payers will not be able to test with a large number of providers, Sid Hebert, director of the ICD-10 implementation team at Humana, told ICD-10 Monitor.



"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," he said.





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