A McKesson Perspective: ICD-10-CM/PCS
Executive Overview
While many healthcare organizations are focused on qualifying for
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) incentive funds to adopt
electronic health records (EHRs) and achieve meaningful use,...
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A McKesson Perspective: ICD-10-CM/PCS
Executive Overview
While many healthcare organizations are focused on qualifying for
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) incentive funds to adopt
electronic health records (EHRs) and achieve meaningful use, there is
another large reform initiative that is not getting its due attention.
Based
on a code set already in use by other developed countries around the
world, the United States government is mandating the use of ICD-10 code
sets for diagnoses and procedures starting Oct.
1, 2013.
To transition to
ICD-10, organizations must also migrate from existing Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) transaction standards to the new ANSI X.
12 version 5010.
The code sets are expanding from an approximate total of 20,000 in ICD-9
to more than 155,000 in ICD-10 — almost an eight-fold increase.
Because
of the magnitude of the difference in the number of codes in the sets, for
many codes there will be no “crosswalks” with a one-to-one match.
The
EDI
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