Other top challenges included a lack of synchronization between payors and providers (19 percent), a lack of financial resources (15 percent), an inability to test appropriately to ensure compliance with guidelines/regulations (10 percent), changes in regulations from the federal government (9 percent) and inadequate guidelines from health plans and clearinghouses (5 percent).
The HIMSS data also revealed:
– 46 percent of respondents said their greatest concern was revenue loss from a bottleneck of coding issues
– Only 5 percent of respondents said their greatest concern was missing the Oct. 2013 deadline and being penalized
– 73 percent of respondents turn to associations for ICD-10 conversion information
– The lowest percentage (20 percent) of respondents turn to clearinghouses for ICD-10 information
Read the HIMSS Vantage Point report on the ICD-10 conversion (pdf).
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