ICD-10 Consulting Shift to Testing and Revenue Impacts
ICD-10 consulting will shift to testing and revenue cycle impacts in the next few months. Testing is the only way to ensure business continuity.
ICD-10 Financial Impact Assessment
ICD-10 Financial Impact Assessments should include an understanding of: ICD-10 Financial Impact to Revenue Cycle Management ICD-10 Financial Impact based on DRG shifts ICD-10 Financial Impact based on ICD-9 to ICD-10 mapping risk ICD-10 Financial Impact based on use of unspecified codes Health Information Technology (HIT) Impacts: ICD-10 Financial Impact to the Health Information Management (HIM) department ICD-10 Financial Impact to IT as distinct from the clinical applications such as resource conflicts ICD-10 Financial Impacts to training budgets, which should include the Human Resources Department ICD-10 Financial Risk and Impacts to denial management with respect to payer relations and contracting
ICD-10, Case Management, Revenue Cycle Management, RAC Audits, and Dual Eligbles
Case Management should benefit the entire system, bridging clinical and financial ares of healthcare. Underlying Case Management processes are a number of functions. Case Management also relies on specific diagnosis codes. If hard-coded information or ICD-9 specific methods of capturing this information are in Case Management Systems, they will need to be remediated or replaced to support ICD-10.
Assessing ICD-10 Financial Risk by Service Line
ICD-10 transition and risk assessment best practice by service line: Physician engagement, combined with chart audits and analytics must be used carefully in a balanced method to ensure that the ICD-10 transition works smoothly across service lines, physician groups, and financial management.
ICD-10 diagnosis and ICD-10 procedure codes impact provider patient scheduling workflow
ICD-10 will impact scheduling workflow. If your current systems capture ICD-9 codes, your IT team will need to remediate and test scheduling systems. Ultimately, an ICD-10 Financial Risk Assessment, ICD-10 testing, and ICD-10 implementation plan should comprehend ICD-10 provider scheduling.
ICD-10 Crosswalk using ICD-10 Predictive Analytics
Now that some health plans and health care providers have completed their ICD-10 Assessments many are trying to determine what to remediate and how to selectively prioritize clinical documentation improvement for health care providers. Health plans are prioritizing their remediations and should be looking at their claims mix and contracted providers as well as test plans. An ICD-10 Risk Assessment using ICD-9 and ICD-10 predictive analytics can help.
10 Steps to a Successful ICD-10 Assessment and ICD-10 Transition
ICD-10 Assessments should lead to actionable approaches using an ICD-10 Financial Risk Assessment, ICD-10 Business roadmap, ICD-10 training for coders, ICD-10 training for physicians, ICD-10 specialty training, ICD-10 vendor readiness,…