From January 1 next year, your practice will have to make the required changes or enhancements to your practice management system, EMR system and/or medical billing and coding. Keeping this in mind, you need to work with your vendors to ensure your healthcare billing and practice management systems are up and running for the conversions to 5010 and ICD-10.
Communication with vendors a vital cog
It's very important that you get in touch with outside vendors to ensure the success of your practice's transition to version 5010 and ICD-10.
One more key to success is to test early and that too often
You should make it a point to test transactions and claim submissions with your vendor, clearing house and payer prior to the 5010 version deadline next year and the ICD-10 deadline in 2013. This step is very important for you to make a smooth transition.
Don't wait too late to test as your task will be tougher if you detect a flaw in your system in the last minute.
How to go about it: Get in touch with your software vendors well ahead of time to ensure that no issues will be there as far as claims submissions using ICD-10 are concerned. First you need to find out whether your vendors are all geared up for the transition to the just-in 5010 format.
Hardware requirements for your practice
Hardware is a vital peg for the 5010 and ICD-10 implementations. As such you need to assess the hardware your practice or vendor use. Find out the present age of your practice's hardware, the dual-processing capability for the two code sets (ICD-9 and ICD-10), storage capacity, processing power, and the like.
Also, you will need to see to it that your system is able to handle alphanumeric codes, seven characters, code descriptions which are long, just-in edits based on age, sex, and more, separate data entry programs for dual processing.
Your system is very important to be able to process both the soon-to-go ICD-9 code set and the soon-to-come ICD-10 code set concurrently to allow for claims processing, reporting and analysis.
The time required for maintaining both ICD-9 and ICD-10 will depend on your individual practice's requirement.
Source URL :- http://www.supercoder.com/icd-10/icd-10-bridge
You also need to see that your practice or vendor has a hardware that can handle the increased file and database storage you will need when the new code system goes into effect.
Communication with vendors a vital cog
It's very important that you get in touch with outside vendors to ensure the success of your practice's transition to version 5010 and ICD-10.
One more key to success is to test early and that too often
You should make it a point to test transactions and claim submissions with your vendor, clearing house and payer prior to the 5010 version deadline next year and the ICD-10 deadline in 2013. This step is very important for you to make a smooth transition.
Don't wait too late to test as your task will be tougher if you detect a flaw in your system in the last minute.
How to go about it: Get in touch with your software vendors well ahead of time to ensure that no issues will be there as far as claims submissions using ICD-10 are concerned. First you need to find out whether your vendors are all geared up for the transition to the just-in 5010 format.
Hardware requirements for your practice
Hardware is a vital peg for the 5010 and ICD-10 implementations. As such you need to assess the hardware your practice or vendor use. Find out the present age of your practice's hardware, the dual-processing capability for the two code sets (ICD-9 and ICD-10), storage capacity, processing power, and the like.
Also, you will need to see to it that your system is able to handle alphanumeric codes, seven characters, code descriptions which are long, just-in edits based on age, sex, and more, separate data entry programs for dual processing.
Your system is very important to be able to process both the soon-to-go ICD-9 code set and the soon-to-come ICD-10 code set concurrently to allow for claims processing, reporting and analysis.
The time required for maintaining both ICD-9 and ICD-10 will depend on your individual practice's requirement.
Source URL :- http://www.supercoder.com/icd-10/icd-10-bridge
You also need to see that your practice or vendor has a hardware that can handle the increased file and database storage you will need when the new code system goes into effect.
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