Get Ready Now: Assess How ICD-10 Will Affect Your Practice
Compliance date is October 1, 2015. Visit the CMS ICD-10 website for the most current information. Make sure your practice is prepared by following the ABCs of ICD-10:
Assess how ICD-10 will affect your practice and make a plan
- Access to ICD-10 codes – You can find codes from a variety of sources
- Clearinghouse services – Some providers who are not ready could benefit from contracting with a clearinghouse to submit claims.
- Clinical documentation and coding training
- New Forms
- Systems upgrades
Be sure your systems are ready
You’ll want to verify that you can:
- Generate and submit claims
- Schedule outpatient procedures
- Perform eligibility and benefits verifications
- Prepare to submit quality data
- Schedule office visits
- Update patient histories and encounters
- Code a patient encounter
- If you aren’t sure your systems are ready for ICD-10, contact your vendors and other business trading partners.
- Ask about testing opportunities
- Confirm vendors and products are ICD-10-ready