Hospitals and practices that don’t meet the Oct. 2013 deadline for ICD-10 will face fines from HHS. As a result, some IT companies selling ICD-10 products are enjoying high earnings.
With the conversion, hospitals are going from the ICD-9 system, which has been in place since the 1970s and has 17,000 codes, to a new system with more than 155,000 codes. The ICD-10 codes are also longer and more precise, making it easier to use data to improve quality and efficiency.
Providers making the ICD-10 conversion also have to update the electronic format to transmit claims from 4010A1 to 5010, which is required by Jan. 1, 2012.
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