Home Health & Hospice Week
CMS Releases Finalized ICD-10 Codes For October
You’ve got only a few short months to get up to speed on the new ICD-10 diagnosis codes hitting Oct. 1. See the updates at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2017-ICD-10-CM-and-GEMs.html. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says it will post the Generally Equivalent Mappings for the new codes next month.
Download the new codes today, urges consultant Beth Noyce with Noyce Consulting in her newsletter. “October 1st is nearer than we think,” Noyce warns.
Beware: When the new GEMS come out, don’t depend on them, warns coding expert Lisa Selman-Holman on her blog. CMS’s GEMS “often point to [an] unspecified code,” she says. “They may get you to the right neighborhood, but not to the right house.”
“Using GEMs or mappers to code leads to inaccuracy and, in time, CMS will note trends and change medical review policies and case mix scoring to the industry’s detriment,” Selman-Holman predicts.
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