ICD-10 news and information

Health information technology leaders have a lot on their plates today and more to come—implementing systems to match the federal IT incentive payment program upgrades, satisfying auditors roaming the land, meeting privacy constraints and preparing for the switch to a huge set of updated...
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari served more than two years as the health IT czar during health IT's busiest time. In an interview before leaving the post, he shares his thoughts with reporter Joseph Conn.
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The future of U.S. healthcare and the future of the Medical Group Management Association will be discussed by the 5,000 people expected to attend the MGMA annual conference Oct. 6-9 at the San Diego Convention Center.
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Many private and public health insurers are violating federal rules for the rapid electronic handling of queries for information about patients' coverage, according to insurance claims transmission experts.
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A series of rebasing and coding adjustments from the CMS would cause home health agencies to see a 1.5% reduction in their Medicare payments for 2014.
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With 16 months left before the CMS expects the healthcare industry to flip the switch to ICD-10, physicians are still expressing significant worries with the readiness of the technology that has to be upgraded to pull it off.
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An American Medical Association board of trustees report that recommended against a strategy of bypassing the ICD-10 set of diagnostic and procedural codes and skipping straight to ICD-11 was rejected by the AMA House of Delegates on Wednesday morning.
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Contrary to its advice for others, the CMS won't require and had never planned to ask its Medicare administrative contractors to test their claims processing systems with outside organizations prior to the scheduled 2014 nationwide conversion to the highly complex ICD-10 revision of diagnostic and...
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A new survey of more than 1,000 office-based physician practices expressed widespread and significant concern about the cost and the workflow burden perceived to be coming their way from the planned, nationwide rollout of the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes.
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Observers agree that finding qualified coders could be challenging.as hospitals and other healthcare providers move forward on ICD-10.
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