Home Health & Hospice Week

ICD-10 implementation may be de-layed, but at least some providers are still making progress on the transition. In June, CMS’ John Evangelist said that the March 3-7 ICD-10 testing was quite successful, with 127,000 ICD-10 claims finding their way through the fee-for-service claims system. The national average for claims success was 89 percent, although some regions successfully processed 99 percent of the claims submitted, Evan-gelist said in a meeting of the Standards Subcom-mittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS). Among the 2,600 entities that submitted ICD-10 claims during testing, more than 50 percent were clearinghouses, and the rest were home health providers, physician practices, hospitals, labs, ASCs, dialysis facilities, billers, and ambulance services.

For more on the ICD-10 transition that will take place on Oct. 1, 2015, visit the ICD-10 website at www.cms.gov/medicare/coding/icd10.