an eye for icd-10s jaye benson marketing manager meditech
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An Eye for ICD-10s
Jaye BensonMarketing Manager
MEDITECH
• Overview of ICD-10
• Impact of ICD-10
• Planning and Preparing for ICD-10
• MEDITECH's Road Map
Competing Initiatives
• ARRA
• ACOs
• 5010/HIPAA
• Payment Restructuring
Why Move to ICD-10s
• Improved understanding of health conditions
• Improved patient outcomes
• Improved data for disease management (nationally and worldwide)
• Reduced need for additional documentation from payers
Greater Level of Specificity Provides:
Myths About ICD-10
• It's an I.T. project
• It's a HIM project
• They will be revenue neutral
I.T. Impact
• Providers
• Vendors
• Clearinghouses and Payers
User Impact
• HIM/Coders
• Physicians
• Patient Access and Ancillary Staff
• Case Managers and Utilization Review
• Patient Financial Services
• Contract Management
• Quality Reporting
• Decision Support
Cumulative Impact of ICD-10s
• Decreased productivity
• Increased coder demand
• UR/AR increase
• Decreased cash flow
Planning for ICD-10
Planning for ICD-10
Planning for ICD-10
Planning for ICD-10
MEDITECH and ICD-10s
• How has MEDITECH been preparing for ICD-10s?
• Recommendations and Best Practices
• What's still to come?
MEDITECH's Road Map
• Preparation Began in 2009 • ICD-10 Committee • Updated all ICD-10 Touch Points in
our Systems• Dual Coding Functionality Introduced • General Equivalency Maps (GEMS) • MEDITECH Staff Education • Customer Education • Best Practice • Future Changes
Industry Best Practices
• Identify Your Needs • Steering Committee • Budget Planning • Training/Staffing • Reporting • Interfaces • Financial/Payers • Medical Necessity • Encoder Interfaces
More to Come...
• Problem List enhancements
• Physician Documentation enhancements
• Coder worklist
• Notices
• Nomenclature mapping
• Natural language processing
MEDITECH Resources
• Customer training sessions
• ICD-10 Resource Center
• Periodicals, portals, people
• Your story