Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) news and information

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has released a free 29-page guide on Medicare rules covering the enrollment process for electronic funds transfers (EFT) and electronic remittance advices (ERA) to help hospitals, office-based providers, claims clearinghouses and health plans prepare...
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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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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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Even with a year's grace period, many providers, payers and health information technology vendors are still running behind schedule for the massive conversion next year to ICD-10 codes.
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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, in reprising a work it did 20 years ago, will research and produce by year's end a comprehensive report on the state of the art of health information exchange in the U.S.
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How are ICD-10 preparations coming along?The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange and the CMS want to know.
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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, a Reston, Va.-based health information technology advisory group, has launched an online reporting system designed to let healthcare organizations share their challenges with and solutions to meeting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's...
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HHS unclogged a backlog of key information technology regulations late last week, including a rule that sets the ICD-10 implementation date for Oct. 1, 2014—to the consternation of a major physician's group, the MGMA.
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Time has run out for the stragglers. After two extensions, the CMS has not added a third period of enforcement abeyance to its rule requiring the use of several new electronic transactions standards.
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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange will launch an online reporting system and host a series of webinars on problems with implementing the Accredited Standards Committee's X12 Version 5010 standards for the electronic communication of healthcare claims and other administrative...
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