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icd 10 code for medication refill
Two years from now seems like a continued time away, unless you alive in the dog-years of all-embracing healthcare reform. Healthcare providers, payers, regulators and bloom IT vendors are basic for this change while accompanying acclamation cyberbanking health-record deployments, HITECH requirements, decisionmaking apropos captivation with answerable care, accretion analysis architect audits, HIPAA/NIST 5010 changes, value-based purchasing and the charge to abide aggressive in the bazaar at home.
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Although Oct. 1, 2013, marks the borderline by which we should be coding and appointment our cyberbanking abstracts altering announcement affairs for casework rendered by our healthcare facilities, the National Council for Decree Drug Programs would like physicians to use ICD-10 for decree refills by March 1, 2013.
The complication of ICD-10, its precursor, and the bulk of change that charge action in both applications and aural healthcare organizations to abutment abounding accomplishing by these looming deadlines will crave providers to address abundant of 2013 to training and education.
ICD-10 is in aspect the accepted hot affair for action through fear, ambiguity and doubt, and we should pay absorption to the bulk of beforehand as able-bodied as the circuitous and commutual activities that will accredit our organizations to cross this change.
There are abounding factors that we charge face to abutment an ICD-10 transformation; I've been acquirements this contiguous at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center. First, the coding schemas are abundant added expansive. Booty a attending at these basic statistics that about characterize the challenge:
DIAGNOSIS CODES
ICD-9:
5 characters
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14,000 codes
ICD-10:
7 characters
68,000 codes
PROCEDURE CODES
ICD-9:
5 characters
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4,000 codes
ICD-10:
7 characters
Inpatient only
72,000 codes
At Albany Medical Center, we acquire articular those assorted applications systems that handle ICD codes in some address beyond three mega-processes—revenue cycle, banking and analytic commitment for our hospitals and physician practices. We acquire 55 applications systems that will crave bell-ringer and medical centermost ICD-readiness remediation.
Our accepted compassionate of change factors that we charge administer about and alongside ICD-10 transformation aural our alignment includes:
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We acquire amorphous acclimation for the ICD-10 change by accumulating a working/oversight team, assuming a brief appraisal of systems and processes that will be afflicted and anecdotic the assignment progression that will acquire to action to bear a 2013 implementation. We're additionally advancing a budget, and we're aperture the chat with vendors about their planned timing for artefact readiness/use.
This is a circuitous change accomplishment that has confused assimilate our radar. As we appraise things on the ground, we abide to apprentice how complicated this action absolutely is. We apperceive this will booty a abundant accord of absorption and resources. As active as our aggregation already is, we acquire that we charge booty on this transition.
Our ICD-10 alarm is already ticking—is yours?
George Hickman
Executive carnality admiral and CIO
Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center
Member, CHIME lath of trustees
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