An Eye for ICD-10s
Jaye Benson
Marketing 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
Greater Level of Specificity Provides:
• Improved understanding of health conditions
• Improved patient outcomes
• Improved data for disease management
(nationally and worldwide)
• Reduced need for additional documentation
from payers
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
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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