Many health care leaders believe that their organizations have the move to the new medical coding standard ICD-10 under control. Then they attend a training session. "When we complete the training, many organizations are shell shocked," said an executive with a leading ICD-10 training firm. Most have completely under estimated the time, cost, and skills required to perform the ICD-10 conversion and implementation.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) contains many beneficial provisions but that will not help solve the problem of rapidly rising costs any time soon.
Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Enforcement Rules Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issued…
While health care reform will help achieve a historic increase in access to health care services for millions of Americans, this public policy advance comes at a cost. Mercer, the benefits consulting…
The recent passage of national health care reform legislation is an important milestone in the process of moving toward providing millions of Americans with access to health insurance. However, significant…
Today at the WEDI ICD-10 Forum in Fairfax Virginia, Robert L. Guenther, Technical Director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services concluded that "All States are at high risk" in terms of their ability to complete CMS requirements at a state level to implement ICD-10. The key issue will focus not on technical, IT oriented approaches but on leadership
Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final rule on meaningful use on Tuesday July 13, 2010. The 864-page final rule, which is many weeks late from the expected delivery…
With the first of many key health reform implementation dates arriving on July 1, The New York Times noted that the health care overhaul's beginnings were earning high reviews from some constituencies. The Obama Administration celebrated the…
Meaningful use health care IT rules go from CMS to ONC for review
Physicians and hospitals each have a list of objectives to qualify for subsidies. For physicians, the goals include: Incorporate at least 50 percent of all lab tests in the electronic…
ICD-10 Organizational readiness, Organization impacts, and process impacts are a few of the topics I am asked to speak on. Since many more companies are now doing ICD-10 Assessments and…
The significant increase in code classifications will affect how departments function within themselves, with each other and with outside organizations. As payers take the time to become educated about ICD-10 and 5010, it becomes clear that the impacts are not contained within one area of the business, such as claims.