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Town Hall Webinar: Property and Casualty ICD-10 State Readiness
11/21/2014
November Town Hall Webinar: Property and Casualty ICD-10 State Readiness
Monday, November 24, 2014
3:00 - 4:00PM ET
FREE for WEDI Members
Campaign Payers, vendors, and providers that bill Property and Casualty (P&C) across states are required to comply with each state's requirements. Join us for an update on the WEDI Property and Casualty ICD-10 State Readiness campaign and learn more about:
• Potential impact of state ICD-10 readiness on stakeholder testing and contingency plans • Update on WEDI P&C ICD-10 State Readiness Governor Outreach Campaign from Devin Jopp, President & CEO, WEDI • Which states have declared ICD-10 adoption • How to stay informed on the latest updates on State ICD-10 readiness • How to identify which payers are ready NOW for ICD-10 testing • Latest WEDI ICD-10 Resource Tools • How to stay engaged in the process to help your organization with their ICD-10 testing and implementation plan
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11/24/14
Aetna icd 10 collaborative testing Nov 2014 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Aetna icd 10 collaborative testing Nov 2014
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ICD-10: A Payer Update with Aetna & United Health Group #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
ICD-10: A Payer Update with Aetna & United Health Group
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United Health Care ICD-10 Testing Results November 2014 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
United Health Care ICD-10 Testing Results November 2014
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Minimize Coding Productivity Risks [New Guide] #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Minimize Coding Productivity Risks [New Guide] | Phoenix Health Systems
By Andrea Steffes-Tuttle
This week, we published a guide that provides strategies for mitigating the impact of ICD-10 on coding productivity.
Most people in health IT understand that the transition to ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes will be one of the most profound changes the healthcare industry has ever faced. This change will have a huge impact, affecting many systems, processes, and staff in almost every hospital department and is approaching quickly, as we near the end of 2014, and the October 1, 2015 deadline looms.
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By Andrea Steffes-Tuttle
This week, we published a guide that provides strategies for mitigating the impact of ICD-10 on coding productivity.
Most people in health IT understand that the transition to ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes will be one of the most profound changes the healthcare industry has ever faced. This change will have a huge impact, affecting many systems, processes, and staff in almost every hospital department and is approaching quickly, as we near the end of 2014, and the October 1, 2015 deadline looms.
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OPPOSE EFFORTS TO DELAY ICD-10 UNTIL 2017 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Ohio Health Information Management Association - ICD-10 Implementation Grassroots Campaign - OPPOSE EFFORTS TO DELAY ICD-10 UNTIL 2017 - Write Congress Today!
ICD-10 Implementation Grassroots Campaign
OPPOSE EFFORTS TO DELAY ICD-10 UNTIL 2017 - Write Congress Today!
Recently, the Texas Medical Association requested a delay of ICD-10 until 2017. They are asking physicians from across the country to join them in their efforts to delay mandatory implementation until October 2017.
The most recent delay of the code sets has already cost the healthcare industry aproximately 6.8 billion dollars. We cannot afford another delay. Write your legislators today and ask them to support the October 1, 2015 compliance date!
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ICD-10 Implementation Grassroots Campaign
OPPOSE EFFORTS TO DELAY ICD-10 UNTIL 2017 - Write Congress Today!
Recently, the Texas Medical Association requested a delay of ICD-10 until 2017. They are asking physicians from across the country to join them in their efforts to delay mandatory implementation until October 2017.
The most recent delay of the code sets has already cost the healthcare industry aproximately 6.8 billion dollars. We cannot afford another delay. Write your legislators today and ask them to support the October 1, 2015 compliance date!
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Are ICD-10 conversion cost estimates overblown? #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Are ICD-10 conversion cost estimates overblown? | Medical Economics
November 21, 2014 By Jeffrey Bendix, Senior Editor
A new study is challenging the conventional belief that the costs of converting to the International Classification of Diseases-10th revision (ICD-10) code set will be prohibitive for small medical practices.
The study, published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) puts ICD-10 conversion costs for a three-physician practice in the range of $1,960 to $5,900. That contrasts with a widely quoted study prepared for the American Medical Association (AMA)—written in 2008 and updated earlier this year—concluding that small-practice conversion costs will range from $22,500 to $105,500.
Stanley Nachimson, principal of Nachimson Advisors, LLC, and author of the AMA study, stands by his estimates, saying “I didn’t see anything in the AHIMA article that would cause me to question the costs predicted in my study.”
The authors of the AHIMA study say their estimates are lower than those in the AMA study “as a result of readily available free and low-cost solutions offered by coding, education and software vendors.” Their findings are based on survey results, published results, and hospitals’ and physicians’ conversion experiences, they write.
In the area of ICD-10 training, they cite the availability of online documentation and coding training for three hours of clinician training at a cost of $50 to $300, and for staff from $350 to $700. They note that the ICD-10 Diagnoses Code Book can be downloaded for free or purchased from publishers for no more than $300.
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November 21, 2014 By Jeffrey Bendix, Senior Editor
A new study is challenging the conventional belief that the costs of converting to the International Classification of Diseases-10th revision (ICD-10) code set will be prohibitive for small medical practices.
The study, published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) puts ICD-10 conversion costs for a three-physician practice in the range of $1,960 to $5,900. That contrasts with a widely quoted study prepared for the American Medical Association (AMA)—written in 2008 and updated earlier this year—concluding that small-practice conversion costs will range from $22,500 to $105,500.
Stanley Nachimson, principal of Nachimson Advisors, LLC, and author of the AMA study, stands by his estimates, saying “I didn’t see anything in the AHIMA article that would cause me to question the costs predicted in my study.”
The authors of the AHIMA study say their estimates are lower than those in the AMA study “as a result of readily available free and low-cost solutions offered by coding, education and software vendors.” Their findings are based on survey results, published results, and hospitals’ and physicians’ conversion experiences, they write.
In the area of ICD-10 training, they cite the availability of online documentation and coding training for three hours of clinician training at a cost of $50 to $300, and for staff from $350 to $700. They note that the ICD-10 Diagnoses Code Book can be downloaded for free or purchased from publishers for no more than $300.
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Country Doctor Sounds Off on ICD-10 - HDM Top Stories Article #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Country Doctor Sounds Off on ICD-10 - HDM Top Stories Article | Health Data Management
Joseph Goedert
NOV 24, 2014
A coalition of 15 stakeholders including technology associations, insurers, vendors, advocacy organizations and one delivery system recently sent a letter to congressional leaders opposing any further delays to the ICD-10 compliance date.
That the Coalition for ICD-10 lacks representation from physician groups did not get past Lloyd Van Winkle, M.D., a solo family doctor for nearly 30 years in rural Castroville, Texas. “I’ve been watching ICD-10 as it pushes forward and tries to come into my life,” he tells Health Data Management. “I’m concerned that it may be premature. I’m trying to keep my practice afloat and question if this is a valuable instrument.”
From Van Winkle’s perspective, the coalition is a group of organizations trying to make money off of ICD-10, particularly insurers who see the code set as an opportunity to further reduce payments. None of his payers, he adds, has reached out to test.
ICD-10, he contends, is another attempt to whittle away the livelihood of physicians, especially small family practices which are the front lines of medicine. “You take away another five or six percent of their bottom line and some of these doctors will go under.”
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Joseph Goedert
NOV 24, 2014
A coalition of 15 stakeholders including technology associations, insurers, vendors, advocacy organizations and one delivery system recently sent a letter to congressional leaders opposing any further delays to the ICD-10 compliance date.
That the Coalition for ICD-10 lacks representation from physician groups did not get past Lloyd Van Winkle, M.D., a solo family doctor for nearly 30 years in rural Castroville, Texas. “I’ve been watching ICD-10 as it pushes forward and tries to come into my life,” he tells Health Data Management. “I’m concerned that it may be premature. I’m trying to keep my practice afloat and question if this is a valuable instrument.”
From Van Winkle’s perspective, the coalition is a group of organizations trying to make money off of ICD-10, particularly insurers who see the code set as an opportunity to further reduce payments. None of his payers, he adds, has reached out to test.
ICD-10, he contends, is another attempt to whittle away the livelihood of physicians, especially small family practices which are the front lines of medicine. “You take away another five or six percent of their bottom line and some of these doctors will go under.”
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Payer consortium to help small practices switch to ICD-10 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
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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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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Cost of regulations causing headaches for Alaska doctors #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Cost of regulations causing headaches for Alaska doctors | Healthcare Finance News
Older physicians with small, rural practices push back on electronic records, ICD-10. Kaiser Health News
"The number of really large practices — and that’s relative in Alaska — you can probably count them on one hand.”"The number of really large practices — and that’s relative in Alaska — you can probably count them on one hand.”
Dr. Oliver Korshin, a 71-year-old ophthalmologist in Anchorage, is not happy about the federal government’s plan to have all physicians use electronic medical records or face a Medicare penalty. A few months ago when he applied for an exemption to the latest requirement, he had to pick an exemption category that fit.
“The only one that possibly applied to me was disaster,” Korshin says. “So I picked disaster and I described my disaster as old age and I submitted as my supporting document a copy of my passport.”
Korshin knew that argument probably wouldn’t work, but he still won’t make the switch. Starting next year, the federal government will penalize him – withholding 1 percent of his Medicare payments.
"The number of really large practices — and that’s relative in Alaska — you can probably count them on one hand.”
EHR, ICD-10 and PQRS may sound like alphabet soup. But most doctors around the country know exactly what those acronyms stand for. They are programs championed by the federal government to improve quality and bring medicine into the electronic age. But in Alaska, where small medical practices and an aging physician workforce are common, the new requirements can be a heavy burden.
Korshin has just one employee, a part-time nurse. And his lease runs out in four years, when he will be 75 and expects to retire. He says for his tiny practice, an electronic medical records system would cost too much to set up and to maintain.
“No possible business model would endorse that kind of implementation in a practice situated like mine, it’s crazy,” he says.
Korshin will lose another 1.5 percent of his Medicare payments next year for failing to enroll in PQRS, a federal program that requires doctors to report quality data. And then there is ICD-10, a new coding system for medical bills — also set to take effect in the fall of 2015.
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Older physicians with small, rural practices push back on electronic records, ICD-10. Kaiser Health News
"The number of really large practices — and that’s relative in Alaska — you can probably count them on one hand.”"The number of really large practices — and that’s relative in Alaska — you can probably count them on one hand.”
Dr. Oliver Korshin, a 71-year-old ophthalmologist in Anchorage, is not happy about the federal government’s plan to have all physicians use electronic medical records or face a Medicare penalty. A few months ago when he applied for an exemption to the latest requirement, he had to pick an exemption category that fit.
“The only one that possibly applied to me was disaster,” Korshin says. “So I picked disaster and I described my disaster as old age and I submitted as my supporting document a copy of my passport.”
Korshin knew that argument probably wouldn’t work, but he still won’t make the switch. Starting next year, the federal government will penalize him – withholding 1 percent of his Medicare payments.
"The number of really large practices — and that’s relative in Alaska — you can probably count them on one hand.”
EHR, ICD-10 and PQRS may sound like alphabet soup. But most doctors around the country know exactly what those acronyms stand for. They are programs championed by the federal government to improve quality and bring medicine into the electronic age. But in Alaska, where small medical practices and an aging physician workforce are common, the new requirements can be a heavy burden.
Korshin has just one employee, a part-time nurse. And his lease runs out in four years, when he will be 75 and expects to retire. He says for his tiny practice, an electronic medical records system would cost too much to set up and to maintain.
“No possible business model would endorse that kind of implementation in a practice situated like mine, it’s crazy,” he says.
Korshin will lose another 1.5 percent of his Medicare payments next year for failing to enroll in PQRS, a federal program that requires doctors to report quality data. And then there is ICD-10, a new coding system for medical bills — also set to take effect in the fall of 2015.
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