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Magazine
Code worry | Docs say ICD-10 implementation carries hefty cost
By Joseph Conn and Andis Robeznieks | June 22, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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AMA House of Delegates rejects ICD-10 report
By Andis Robeznieks | June 19, 2013
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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End-to-end testing for MACs prior to ICD-10 conversion just rumor
By Joseph Conn | June 19, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Doc practices concerned about cost, burden of ICD-10 rollout, survey shows
By Joseph Conn | June 18, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Numbers game | Supply of skilled coders key to ICD-10 transition
By Ashok Selvam | June 15, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Observers agree that finding qualified coders could be challenging.as hospitals and other healthcare providers move forward on ICD-10.
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Lawmakers' bills keep spotlight on ICD-10 debate
By Andis Robeznieks | May 20, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has introduced a Senate version of the Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013, a bill aimed at blocking HHS from implementing the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes, which it is scheduled to do on Oct. 1, 2014.
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WEDI announces ICD-10 best-practices initiative
By Joseph Conn | May 20, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The creation of the WEDI ICD-10 State Collaborative Initiative was announced last week in Las Vegas during the annual national conference of the not-for-profit Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange.
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Riding the wave | As federal EHR incentives recede, the next surge in health IT spending begins to take shape
By Joseph Conn | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., is laying the groundwork for its next big advances in information technology.
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Video Feature: MGMA-ACMPE's Dr. Susan Turney (4:10)
By Modern Healthcare | May 18, 2013
Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief Jessica Zigmond talks with Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE.
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Technology mandates ruining primary care
May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed...
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