Clearing the Air on the ICD-10 Transition
| By Hagland, Mark | |
| Proquest LLC |
AHIMA's Sue Bowman shares her perspectives on the current moment in the Journey towards the ICD-10 transition by mark haoland
When, this March, the U.S. Congress inserted a yearlong delay in the mandate for the transition from the ICD-9 coding system to the ICD-10 coding system fromOct. 1, 2014 , to at least Oct. 1,2015 , as part of a broader bill creating a temporary "SGR fix" (a delay in Medicare physician payment cuts under the program's sustainable growth formula), it threw ICD10 planning into disarray across the U.S. healthcare system.
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The Healthcare Billing and Management Association (HBMA) resurveyed industry members this month in an effort to learn more about current progress toward the anticipated implementation of ICD-10 in October 2015 and ongoing impediments to readiness. Not unexpectedly, there was good news and bad news.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Rhonda Buckholtz is scheduled to participate in a stakeholders’ national conference call being conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today on the topic, “The ICD-10 Code Set Increased –Why?” Excerpts are in the following article.
We all know that the official deadline for implementing ICD-10 has been moved to Oct. 1, 2015. Any healthcare organization that singles out that date as its primary focus, however, is placing itself at grave financial risk. While there are some portions of ICD-10 that simply cannot be implemented in production early, like sending ICD-10 codes on claims, there are others that can – and simply must – be implemented earlier.