ICD-10 Implementation Consulting was just starting to ramp up with hospitals who were until now struggling and distracted with electronic medical record implementation projects to achieve meaningful use of EMRs.

With the announcement from CMS creating uncertainty, ICD-10 implementation plans and ICD-10 assessment start dates have been re-assessed by many of our clients.

One strategy is to continue to move ahead on ICD-10 process impacts, systems planning, and overall budgets but depending on readiness, get your consulting firm to help with both the requirements documentation and strategies for clinical documentation that don’t’ exist now.   Why?  The WEDI / NCHICA timeline suggests that health care providers should have started planning for ICD-10 about 18 months before the CMS announcement of a delay.  Therefore any ICD-10 implementation consulting or ICD-10 planning that was not done should be started now, even with a delay.  It would mean (tongue in cheek) that if you are a hospital system, clinic, physician group, etc. that you could start now and only one year late or perhaps be right on time if CMS announces a two-year delay.

ICD-10 is coming.  The certain thing is that the train has left the station, and the arrival time, if delayed, still means that healthcare providers need to be planning now.

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ICD-10 assessments should start with a thorough understanding of how to communicate, educate, train at all levels.  Here are some topics our team can speak to for your organization.

·      “ICD-10 Organization Strategy”

·     “ICD-10 and Business Continuity Planning” presentation at panel at the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) 5010 ICD-10 Forum. Reston VA ( July 20, 2011)

·     “ICD-10 Translation and GEM”, “ICD-10 Clinical Documentation”

·     “ICD-10 Code Definition and Code Structure”, “ICD-10 Translation and GEM”, “ICD-10 Clinical Documentation” and “ ICD-10 Medical Management”

·     “Redefining Policies, Rules and Categories in ICD-10”

·     “ICD-10 Mapping Strategy and Resulting Clinical Issues”

·     “ICD-10 Code Definition and Code Structure” and “ICD-10 Translation and GEM”

·     “The ICD-10 Transition; Challenges and Opportunities”

·     “The Spector of ICD-10.” Healthcare IT National Meeting.

·     “ICD-10, Peeling the Onion.” Online webinar presentation.

·     “ICD – 10 Implementation: What does it mean to your organization and are you prepared for it?”.

·     “Preparing for ICD-10”

·     “ICD-10 Code Definition and Code Structure”, “ICD-10 Translation and GEM”, “ICD-10 Clinical Documentation” and “ ICD-10 Medical Management”

·     “ICD-10 The Orthopedic Perspective” and “ICD-10 Peeling the Layers”,“ICD-10 Physician Impacts”

·     “How to tackle ICD-10 and Healthcare Reform – Best practices for overcoming healthcare’s biggest hurdles”

·     “ICD-10 Code Definition and Code Structure” and “ICD-10 Translation and GEM”

·     “The Spector of ICD-10 .”

·     “ICD-10, Peeling the Onion.” and “ICD-10, Business Impacts”

·     “ICD-10 Will You Be Ready.”

·     “ICD-10 Crosswalk Primer.”

·     “ICD-10CM: Moving to Better Definitions of the Patients Health State.”

·     “Lifecycle of a Code”

·     “Translation Accountability”

·     “ICD-10 Code Definition and Code Structure” and “ICD-10 Translation and GEM”

·     “Clinical Policy Remediation – Redefining the policy intent in ICD-10.”

·     “The Spector of ICD-10 .”

·     “Clinical Perspective on ICD-10 Translation.”

·     “ICD-10 – The clinician perspective.”

·     “ICD-10 – An external perspective”

·     “Meeting HIPAA5010 and ICD-10 compliance Challenges”

·     “Appropriate Use of Mapping and Crosswalks in Transitioning to ICD-10”

·     “The Clinical Impact of ICD-10: The “Life Cycle” of the Creation and Use of Codes.”

·     “ICD-10CM: A Coding Model that Better Defines the Patient’s Health State”

·     “Implementing ICD-10: Letting Your Business and Clinical Teams Lead the Way”

·     “ICD-10CM: Potentials for loss of data integrity with crosswalks”

·     “Sitting in the Hot Seat: Overcoming the Risk of Fraud with ICD-10 Adoption”

·     “The Impact of the ICD-10 Transition”

·     “ICD-10: Clinical Considerations”

·     “ICD-10CM: A Coding Model that Better Defines the Patient’s Health State”

·     “ICD-10 The Impact of Change”

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