ICD-10 & Coding
OptumInsight (formerly Ingenix) and Dallas-based RemitDATA have launched a service that offers physician practices intelligence about health plan claims processing trends, alongside coding and referential tools to increase productivity, reduce denials and prevent delays.
As the buzz at HIMSS this year indicated, ICD-10 is on the short list of things keeping hospital executives up at night. From 17,000 codes under ICD-9 to 155,000 under the new regulation, ICD-10 takes coding and reimbursement to a whole new level – and will exponentially impact the financial health of every hospital. Here is what every provider needs to know as they prepare for the transition:
If any era demanded healthcare IT consultants, it’s this one. There is a greater need for expertise in more areas today than at any time in the past.
Although the Oct.1, 2013, deadline for the migration to ICD-10 draws closer, even the skeptics are beginning to get on board with enterprise-wide preparations.
Meaningful use incentives, HIPAA and ICD-10 conversion are combining to create a high demand for healthcare IT professionals in the marketplace. Eric Marx, vice president of healthcare IT services for IT staffing and recruiting firm Modis, discusses what hospitals and other healthcare organizations are doing to find the right people for the right jobs.
Orlando Health among health systems digging into ICD-9 conversion
MEDecision, a developer of health management and decision support technology, and Health Language, Inc. (HLI), which specializes in medical terminology management, have joined forces, allowing MEDecision to help payers and providers comply with and capitalize on forthcoming ICD-10 requirements.
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) says it's time for the ONC to address the governance of standard vocabularies and terminology for the meaningful use program.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), with 1,400 CIO members, is urging the government to allow hospitals and physician practices more time to assess Stage 1 progress and to better prepare for Stage 2 meaningful use objectives.
Precyse Solutions, which specializes in health information management, and M*Modal, which develops speech understanding and natural language processing technologies, have teamed up to help the Geisinger Health System improve clinical documentation and coding accuracy.