tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 39

ICD-10: Practices Report Mostly Smooth Sailing Through ICD-10 Transition

Some potential issues, however, may remain to be seen. If you asked medical practices a few years ago about their vision of how ICD-10 implementation would go, many of them would have said they foresaw a post-Oct. 1 future that involved stacks of claim denials. Fortunately for those offices, that doesn’t seem to have come to fruition—at least so far. A Forbes article last week underscored how smoothly the transition has gone, noting that both Humana and UnitedHealth Group have reported very few errors due to the new diagnosis coding system. Many naysayers pointed to the article...

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