The Negative Aspects Of Switching To ICD-10-Am

I am choosing ICD-10 Codes. The reason I have chosen ICD-10 codes is because every medical facility uses the ICD-10 codes for the billing and coding. That is the only way they get paid is by using ICD-10 codes. They will all receive adequate payments using the updated codes and the right type of billing.

There are two trends that I have learned about from UMA and TV. ICD-10 replacing IDC-9. ICD-10 will provide the medical billing/coder with more descriptions for describing encounters and hospital stay for patients. Where ICD-9 had 3,824 procedure codes and 14,025 diagnosis codes, ICD-10 on the other hand, has 71,924 procedure codes and 69,823 diagnosis codes that is a big difference. The affordable care act also made an impacted on billing/coding since more people are getting procedures done. These procedures will need to be coded and documented for doctors and hospitals to get paid.

The main and most obvious difference between ICD-9 and ICD-10 is that there is a significant increase in the amount of codes. ICD-9-CM has an approximate of 17,849 codes when combining all procedural and diagnosis codes, whereas ICD-10 has well over 68,000 Clinical Modification (CM) codes and over 71,000 Procedural Coding System (PCS) codes. There are also several structural differences between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS. Some of them are:

ICD-10 is a huge change from ICD-9, the main purpose was to help coders code more specific. One benefit of ICD-10 is to give the doctor an electronic trail of proof for payments from patients, insurance, government, and hospitals. ICD-9 having diagnosis codes ranging from three to five digits but ICD-10 having diagnosis codes ranging from three to seven digits will automatically give you a more detailed code. Using ICD-10 gives you a lesser risk of getting audited. Giving a specific description on claim forms will make it harder to get the wrong code. ICD-10 will improve healthcare, the codes are more detailed making the data and communication flow faster. ICD-10's will help guarantee the physician reputation; the electronic trails are reported

- amount of diagnosis codes. ICD-10-CM has 69,823 codes compare to 14,025 codes in ICD-9-CM.

I do agree with you it will have a great dramatic impact in healthcare. If the coding system is not used in a proper way it can affect many system that uses codes. When using ICD-10 yes this will help to be more specific when it comes to coding. Its not going to be very easy but its is going to help and change the way the coding system is being used so there won't be No mistakes. Yes, there is a big different between ICD-9 and ICD-10-CM but it can be also easy to learn it because it the revision to all the codes. I do believe the change is good because it just going to help us use a specific code when diagnoses.

The most obvious difference between the two systems is the number of diagnostic codes. ICD-9 had about 14,000 codes whereas ICD-10 will have 68,000 codes.

The continue use of ICD-9 codes after the effective date could result in the denial of reimbursement claims. This task can be assigned to the healthcare organization’s management team to determine a solution avoiding a break down in the system. Rahmathulla states, “In instances of an audit, appropriate documentation will make the query process substantially easier while enabling coders to clarify issues without having to query the provider multiple times for answers” (“Migration To The ICD-10 Coding System S187). It is important to accurately document to reduce the amount of claim denials. With the new specificity requirement of the ICD-10 and documentation supporting a claim, lowers the chances of healthcare fraud. The healthcare management team will oversee the process to prevent the risk of exposure.

A few things are happening soon and for us to be excited about. One is for this Saturday's picnic we will close at 4:30pm as the email stated yesterday. I do hope to see all of you there to enjoy a nice evening by of the family and shorebirds and of course the food!!! We also will be starting to use ICD-10. This is being used all over. From the billing prospective this is a wonderful way of documenting. When we first start this it may take us a few extra minutes with our time patients that have been here before, however; once we do this we will not have to do it again since the codes will then be ICD-10. More information is coming on this.

To make life easier you should document these patients with both ICD-9 and ICD-10 from the getgo. By entering all of your patient’s insurance information into your billing system, it will prompt you to enter both code sets at the beginning of treatment enabling a smooth transition to a patient’s secondary insurance once his primary benefits have been exhausted.

I do agree that it took some time to convert to ICD-10 because we were still learning new diseases such as AIDS and all other types of cancer and other diagnosis. The reason for such delays was because of lack of progress, concerns about not being ready to convert, how much it would cost to make this transition, and also some lack of jurisdiction. So I can understand why it was so time consuming.

Revenue cycle management (RCM) has become increasingly complex thanks in large part to the almost-constant health care reforms and initiatives. As ICD-10 is about to become the new coding standard, hospitals and private practices have begun arming themselves with as many tools and techniques as they can that will help them better manage their revenue cycles.

A number of countries have already moved to ICD-10-CM, but here in the United States we are still behind, and have not evolved from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM.

The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) has been in development since 1983 to replace the outdated Ninth Revision (ICD-9) that has been in use in the U.S. for over 35 years (Giannangelo, 2015). Due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Simplification regulation published in 2009, the Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) will replace ICD-9-CM Volumes 1 and 2, and the Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) will replace ICD-9-CM Volume 3 for all HIPAA transactions effective October 2015 (Giannangelo, 2015). These new code sets accommodate new procedures and diagnoses and allow for greater specificity in clinical documentation (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS],

ICD-10, which is the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problem, refers to a medical classification inventory for the coding of diseases, their signs, symptoms and causes (Center for Disease Control and Prevention 1). The use of this revised version in the United States is scheduled to begin officially on the first of October 2013. Currently, ICD-10 is being used for diagnosis coding, in procedure coding systems and for inpatient procedure coding.