ICD-10
With 2013 approaching quickly, chief financial officers in the
healthcare industry have a good reason to stay awake at night. Planning
for and successfully transitioning to ICD-10 will
not succeed without involvement of everyone in the organization. Even
before ICD-10 goes into effect, healthcare
organizations must convert from the 4010 transaction standard to the HIPAA
5010 standard to accommodate the new code-sets.
The professionals at Jimenez Consulting Solutions
can help your organization develop a program to manage the successful
transition to ICD-10. Our approach involves the
people, processes and technologies that will be impacted. We will
help your team:
- Establish and monitor activities of cross-functional teams who
must be involved in planning and managing the transition
- Create processes to improve documentation of care and treatment
to conform with the new standards
- Develop a schematic which shows the software, interfaces,
databases, and forms that will require changes
- Review existing systems and software to determine whether the
vendors will be able to support the ICD-10
- Work with vendors to develop plans for transition Evaluate
interfaces and codes to make sure they will support billing
- Determine if there will be a need for parallel systems and plan
accordingly
- Plan for the education and training of users
- Perform financial analysis to help you understand the impact of
the changes
- Review and update policies and procedures
- Prepare training plans for end users
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