Practices Foresee Little Benefit from CMS’s ICD-10 Help (Healthcare Financial Management Association)

(Source: Healthcare Financial Management Association) Post-deadline steps physician practices should take include forming teams across the practice that can track the number and type of claim denials to determine what is causing them. Sept. 30-In the waning weeks before the historic Oct. 1 transition to the ICD-10 code sets, physician practices reported gaining little benefit from federal initiatives aimed at easing the switch, according to recent polling. Porter Research polled 318 providers nationwide in August about their organizations' readiness for the ICD-10 transition, and found few were planning to utilize assistance and flexibility offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...