By Susan Clark – Are you feeling like ICD-10 and Meaningful Use are your ‘frenemies’, competing for your attention like Paris and Lindsay, Katie and Rhianna, or Taylor and Selena? Then it is time to re-examine that relationship because in reality ICD-10 has the back of Meaningful Use.
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This webinar will provide Part B providers with an overview of ICD-10-CM and will assist you with planning for the mandated ICD-10-CM transition. This session will include testing opportunities and transition stages that will help you prepare your office for the upcoming implementation.
In the film Lost in Translation as the end of their time together approaches, Scarlett Johansson tells Bill Murray “Reality changes things…we can’t stay here forever.” One of the core reforms in the SGR bill (H.R. 2) is a move from a physician payment system that rewards volume to one that rewards value. The move to measuring and paying for value means the reality of SGR has changed things.
According to French abstract artist Robert Delaunay, “Our understanding is correlative to our perception.” Many in the healthcare community may have the perception that all physicians oppose the transition to ICD-10. That is simply not true.
By Sarianne Gruber – Just last week we were hearing rumblings from Congress that there could be a delay in the ICD-10 compliance date, similar to last year when in was moved to October 1, 2015. Bill and I had scheduled some time on Friday to catch up, and I was anxious to hear his perspective.
By Adam Lokeh & Kathy Lindstrom – When the first U.S. Ebola patient was admitted to a Dallas hospital in the summer of 2014, the ensuing media firestorm scrutinized nearly every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system’s readiness to deal with an epidemic that had already left thousands dead and dying overseas.
By Ric Sinclair – ICD-10 is often described in scary terms—a potential disaster, a perfect storm, an angry attacker bent on destroying your practice. OK, maybe not that last one. But as you ready your organization for ICD-10, consider applying some of the principles of Krav Maga.
ZirMed®, the premier cloud-based enterprise financial and clinicalperformance solution for healthcare, announced results from its latest ICD-10 end-to-end testing efforts. After surveying its clients, ZirMed found overall that those who have started testing have gainedconfidence in their ICD-10 coding strategy and found additional areas for testing in 2015.
By Summer Humphreys – Now that Congress has rejected requests to delay ICD-10, it’s time to get on the bandwagon or risk significant financial implications. ICD-10 touches virtually every aspect of your organization’s processes and systems, and failure to prepare and comply with the mandate will have a significant impact on your reimbursements.