tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 18

ICD-10 Transition: Take MAC's Help for ICD-10 Alternate Billing if You Face Issues

Years of preparation to bear fruit now. The switch to ICD-10 is almost here. However, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is accepting claims for acknowledgement testing right up to implementation date. “The short story is that we’re ready,” said CMS’s Diane Kovach during an Aug. 26 Medicare Open Door Forum. “Systems changes for ICD-10 were done over several years and were completed on Oct. 1, 2013 and since that time we’ve been testing our systems extensively and making tweaks as needed, and we’re very pleased with the testing results...

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