Archive for September, 2015

by Belinda Holmes, BS, CPC, CCP-P 

AMA & CMS Highlights on ICD-10 Implementation

“ICD-10 implementation is set to begin on Oct. 1, and it is imperative that physician practices take steps beforehand to be ready,” Dr. Steven Stack, AMA’s president, said in a statement. The Medicare claims processing systems will not have the capability to accept ICD-9 codes for dates of services after Sept. 30, 2015, nor will they be able to accept claims for both ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes.

In July, with ...

by Owen Dahl

August 5, 2015

Medical practices will soon face a major change in the way they do business. The deadline for implementation of ICD-10 is days away. This is just one of the many regulatory changes practices must comply with, to stay current in the policy landscape. Instead of dreading “change,” how about thinking about it in a different way? You are not changing, your practice is “transitioning” to a new way of doing things.

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by Robert Pear
September 13, 2015

“We will have to be very much more specific,” said Dr. Pardeep Kumar, an internist in practice with his wife in Terre Haute, Ind. Credit James Brosher for The New York Times

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The nation’s health care providers are under orders to start using a new system of medical codes to describe illnesses and injuries in more detail than ever before. The codes will cover common ailments: Did a diabetic also have kidney ...