Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While most providers are busy deploying financial, technology, and people resources to meet the Meaningful Use program requirements in the hope of obtaining large government bonuses, these payments–between $44,000 and $63,000 per eligible professional–are a drop in the bucket compared to the revenue your organization could lose if you miss the ICD-10 conversion deadlines.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“I have to wonder about the state healthcare information technology (HIT) in this country. Major medical associations can’t seem to let go of ancient technology.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“There’s a way to soften the impact that ICD-10 implementation has on your budget. It involves working on ICD-10 and Meaningful Use compliance as the same project.
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Carl Natale, Government Health IT
“The American Medical Association has taken the next step in its vigorous opposition to ICD-10 implementation.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I’ve written extensively about the challenge of implementing ICD10 and my belief that the billions of dollars required to implement it will not improve quality, safety, or efficiency.
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Ron Shinkman, FierceHealthIT
“The American Medical Association has sent a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner asking his help in halting the implementation of the ICD-10 coding system, reported The Hill’s Healthwatch and iHealthBeat.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The American Medical Association is asking House Speaker John Boehner to help stop implementation of the ICD-10 code sets and call on the industry to assess an appropriate replacement for ICD-9, The Hill newspaper reports.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“One of the persistent arguments arguments against ICD-10 coding is that it will have no effect on patient care.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“If you’re going to argue against the need to implement ICD-10-CM/PCS, you need to explain how specific the medical codes can be. Apparently that’s a bad thing.
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H. Stephen Lieber, FierceHealthIT
“It is 2012–time to look forward to a year of deadlines, determination, and perhaps defiance, as we strive to reach that goal of nationwide interoperable electronic health records.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“We’re seeing a lot of pushback against ICD-10 implementation, with the American Medical Association’s “vigorous opposition” at the extreme. Gloom and doom types equate to potential IT disaster to Y2K. Ever since watching T. Bedirhan Üstün, M.D. — curator of the International Classification of Diseases, the master coding set from which ICD-10 is derived – present at the American Health Information Managers (AHIMA) annual meeting last October, a question’s been gnawing at me:
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Stephen M. Stewart, H&HN Daily
“I had the great pleasure of working with a CNO who, before retiring recently, shared some valuable information and insight with me. She always said, “If you want us nurses to get it, you have to ride the halls like Paul Revere and keep reminding us that the British are coming.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Now that it’s 2012, and you have reached HIPAA 5010 compliance, it’s time to work on your electronic health record (EHR) and Meaningful Use initiatives. Or do you need to start ICD-10 implementation next?
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Priyal Patel, Healthcare IT Solutions
“It is no surprise that many healthcare organizations have not yet begun planning for the highly anticipated ICD-10 transition. Many believe that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will postpone the October 1, 2013, deadline, allowing for some wiggle room in implementation.
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Sue A. Irwin, Physicians Practice
“There is a lot of panic-inducing marketing going on out there like: “ICD-10 is going to clog up the process so badly that no one will be paid”; “ICD-10 will not be accepted by everyone, which means double submissions in order to be paid by someone who has a secondary policy; etc.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“While it may be a little early to break your New Year’s resolutions, it’s not too late to make some.
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Kim Felix, Becker's Hospital Review
“In regards to ICD-10 readiness, the good news is that 85 percent of organizations have begun either ICD-10 transition planning or implementation. This is up from 62 percent a year ago, per an August 2011 survey by the American Health Information Management Association. The bad news is that ICD-10 readiness assessments conducted at these sites uncovered a very large scope of work ahead. There is much to be accomplished before the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“It’s not uncommon to read how ICD-10 will make things difficult for healthcare providers.
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Ron Sterling, HITECHAnswers
“On October 1, 2013, practices will start submitting claims using the ICD-10 coding system. Any practice planning on using EHR systems to facilitate the transition to ICD-10 needs to take a close look at the practicality of implementing an EHR in time to support ICD-10 coding.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The next stage in the transition to ICD-10 is just around the corner. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a fundamental coding system used in billing, as well as keeping lists of diagnoses in Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
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