America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has selected Deloitte to be a provider of subject matter experience, knowledge and training content related to ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 compliance learning programs for the upcoming year. These regulations involve the coding system that doctors and hospitals use to code diagnoses and procedure information on medical claims and other fundamental health transactions.
The upgrade to ICD-10/HIPAA 5010 is a government-mandated regulatory change. The healthcare industry must update the current ICD-9 coding system to comply with the new ICD-10 regulation, marking some of the largest and broad sweeping operational and technology impacts affecting the industry since Y2K, according to AHIP. n
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