tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 8

ICD-10: CMS Accepts 81 Percent of ICD-10 Test Claims

Biggest denial reason had nothing to do with diagnosis coding. It appears that ICD-10 really will be implemented this year, with a recent Congressional hearing confirming that the government doesn’t plan to push back the new diagnosis coding system any further than it already has been—and with those plans full steam ahead, CMS revealed that its recent end-to-end testing period returned positive results. The agency processed 14,929 test claims during the Jan. 26 to Feb. 3 testing period, from 661 participating providers. An overwhelming majority of claims—81 percent—were accepted through the system, and the...

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