The transition to ICD-10 that took effect in October 2015 is progressing. Physician practices are submitting claims with the new codes quite successfully and getting reimbursed by insurers, many with the help of professional medical billing and coding companies....
As the ICD-10 medical coding system officially went live on October 1, all HIPAA covered healthcare settings are required to replace ICD-9-CM codes with ICD-10-CM codes on their claims (date of service from October 1). This significant replacement will have a serious...
The ICD-10 medical coding is getting implemented today and implementation date is here and now there is no way of avoiding it. From today on physicians and hospitals across the country will have to start using the new medical coding system to describe patient visits...
The long awaited ICD-10 Implementation has now arrived. The coding aspect of any practice is usually resource sapping, and that’s because there is a significant amount of effort and attention to detail required in assigning the right codes. That is more so when...
Last year, we discussed the October 2013 ICD-10 Readiness Survey by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) and found that the healthcare industry was not prepared for ICD-10 compliance. Now, the June 2015 ICD-10 Industry Readiness Survey by WEDI gives us...
