The House of Representatives proposes the implementation of a two-year ICD-10 “grace period” to help physicians and healthcare providers more effortlessly transition from ICD-9 into ICD-10....
With $22 billion spent by the healthcare industry over the past two decades to plan, train, convert systems, test, and transition for ICD-10 implementation, and a delay costing over $6 billion, will the...
According to today's announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), ICD-10 implementation success is here. Between Monday, April 27 and Friday, May 1, Medicare...
What does ICD-10 implementation success mean for your healthcare practice come October 1, 2015? How will your healthcare practice be affected? Perhaps success is nothing more than the simple...
As RevCycleIntelligence.com continues to stay ahead of the ICD-10 implementation curve, many leading healthcare experts and leaders have offered a plethora of valuable advice, tips, and insightful...
Consider the healthcare industry deep in the trenches of an ICD-10 Cinderella effect of sorts. As the ICD-10 implementation clock continues to tick tock, the healthcare industry ruminates and...
Earlier this month, the House proposed a new bill, H.R. 2126, the Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2015, aimed at freezing ICD-10 CM/PCS implementation. The bill intends to prohibit Sylvia M. Burwell,...
The House of Representatives has introduced a new bill, H.R. 2247, requesting a mandatory ICD-10 transition period following the October 1, 2015 ICD-10 implementation date. This bill – the...
There are 142 days left until the International Classification of Diseases – ICD-10 – compliance. What’s next? More Medicare end-to-end testing efforts, says The Centers for Medicare...
The House is pushing to completely cease ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation via the introduction of a new bill. The primary objective of the bill, H.R. 2126, is to disallow the Secretary of the Department of...
Last week, RevCycleIntelligence.com presented the top five facts to know now about ICD-10 implementation, as reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Here are five (more)...
Many commonly accepted myths have been recently circulating among healthcare providers, payers, and professionals about the upcoming implementation of ICD-10, the tenth revision of the International...
Tick tock goes the ICD-10 clock.
As the ICD-10 implementation October 1, 2015 date looms closer, hesitation within the healthcare industry blossoms as providers struggle to stay in the game. Can...
Preceding the Senate’s upcoming vote next week on Monday, April 13 following a two-week hiatus on the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill, H.R.2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization...
Last week, the House of Representatives passed legislation that permanently repealed the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula and established an original reimbursement plan with fundamentally...
There are possible new improvements to the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) payment system today as the bipartisan House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Medicare Access and CHIP...
Reimbursement is a key aspect that will play a big role by ICD-10 implementation as the Oct. 1, 2015 deadline approaches and speculation abounds as to the damaging financial effects an unsuccessful...
Provider organizations and physicians continue to prepare for the ICD-10’s unknown revenue impact as the October 1, 2015 looms nearer and providers seek to actively protect revenue...
ICD-10 implementation involves a complicated code conversion that physicians struggle to comprehend, and the mandated code change raises substantial financial concerns.
RevCycleIntelligence.com spoke...
Effective means for managing revenue cycle activity and optimization continue to evolve amidst the upcoming effects of ICD-10 implementation, the urgent push for mainstream mobile data processing, and a...
