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ICD-10 Reimbursement Mappings: New Mappings from CMS Help Organizations in the Transition to ICD-10
Author: Butler, Rhonda R.; Mills, Ronald E
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: April 2009
Starting October 1, 2013, healthcare claims will be submitted to payers using ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes and ICD-10-PCS procedure codes. Some payers such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are converting their reimbursement systems to use ICD-10 codes directly. However, som....
Reading the Fine Print on ICD-10 Conversions: Even Highly Automated Conversions Require Review
Author: Butler, Rhonda R.; Mills, Ronald E; Averill, Richard F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2011
Automation is a major help in converting to the ICD-10 code set, but it is not a magical solution. In fact, skipping a human review of converted systems exposes an organization to legal and financial risk.
People who are secondary users of coded medical records-who see only the resul....
Impact of the Transition to ICD-10 on Medicare Inpatient Hospital Payments
Author: Mills, Ronald E; Butler, Rhonda R.; Averill, Richard F.; McCullough, Elizabeth C; Bao, Mona Z
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Objectives
Distinguish between methods for converting a complex application from ICD-9 to ICD-10.
Identify the strategies employed in converting the MS-DRG grouper to ICD-10.
Identify the strategies employed in creating an 11-million record comprehensive test file of converted....
The Often Mismatched Shoes of Healthcare: SNOMED vs. ICD-10-CM/PCS
Author: Mills, Ronald E
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2013
The healthcare industry has spent millions of dollars implementing electronic health records (EHRs). Most EHR systems use concept dictionaries like SNOMED or a similar system for internally representing medical information. With the ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation making headlines, people hav....
Impact of the Transition to ICD-10 on Medicare Inpatient Hospital Payments
Author: Mills, Ronald E; Butler, Rhonda R.; Averill, Richard F.; McCullough, Elizabeth C; Fuller, Richard L; Bao, Mona Z
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: February 2015
On October 1, 2015, ICD-9-CM is scheduled
to be replaced by the International Classification
of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical
Modification (ICD-10-CM) for reporting
diagnosis data across all sites of service and the
International Classification of Diseases, Tenth