DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2015 Issue 10 (October)

ICD-10 launch: Some MAC LCDs behind but providers successfully submit claims

Far from calls of distress, the early markers of the ICD-10 transition appear favorable, according to coding and billing professionals Part B News spoke with on the morning of Oct. 1.
 
“The physicians are smiling,” reports Alix Petersen, director of revenue cycle management at Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance in Nashville. With one or two exceptions, most of her doctors remembered to look up and write ICD-10 codes on their charge tickets Oct. 1, she adds.
 
But one issue with local coverage determinations (LCDs) could cause confusion.

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