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CMS Acknowledgement Testing Week Highlights Lingering ICD-10 Issues
Written by Mark Spivey | Monday, 08 December 2014 00:00
Despite a decline in participation and some lingering issues still affecting providers, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Provider Billing Group Director Diane Kovach told Talk-Ten-Tuesday listeners last week that she was pleased with the results from the second of four scheduled acknowledgement testing weeks being planned and coordinated by the agency.
“Overall,” Kovach said, “the testing went really well.”
Only two things were being scrutinized during the testing week that recently ended prior to the Thanksgiving holiday: the ability of providers to submit claims containing ICD-10 codes to CMS, and the ability of CMS to accept those codes, Kovach explained.
“These claims are not fully adjudicated in this testing,” she said. “It’s really just what we like to call ‘getting the claim in the door.’”
The first CMS Acknowledgement Testing Week was held in March. Participation in the most recent edition was “a little lower,” Kovach conceded, but there were two factors likely playing a factor in that area: First, the most recent ICD-10 delay, which “removed some of the sense of urgency” to get testing done in an expedient manner, she said, and second, a public stance regarding testing currently being taken by CMS.
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