ICD-10 Time to Board the Train

摘要

According to a survey of 120 hospitals with 400 or fewer beds surveyed by Health Revenue Assurance Holdings, approximately half are not following official Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) timelines on preparing for the ICD-10 transition. Twenty percent of these smaller hospitals have not begun any ICD-10 training or education. Forty-seven percent have not begun documentation improvement education for their medical staff and 31 percent do not plan to dual code prior to the implementation date.The 2013 ICD-10 readiness survey conducted by Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) also indicates slow progress among healthcare stakeholders, including providers, vendors and health plans. The survey, conducted by Nachimson Advisors, was voluntary and likely "represents a more advanced group than the general population, so the results should be interpreted carefully," according to Stanley Nachimson, ot Nachim son Advisors and former CMS lead on HIPAA regulation development and implementation.