Home Health and Hospice Providers - How are you Preparing for ICD-10?
In a little over 18 months from now medical providers including home health and hospice agencies will be transitioning to ICD-10. How is your agency preparing for the transition?
During the next 18 months, Home Care Software is committed to providing you and your home health and hopice agency with the tools and resources that you need to be fully prepared. To start, CMS launched ICD-10 National Provider Calls last year. These calls can be reviewed in their entirety on the CMS YouTube channel.
From CMS: 
Is your organization preparing for a smooth transition to ICD-10 on Tuesday, October 1, 2013? ICD-10 National Provider Calls, hosted by the CMS Provider Communications Group, can help you prepare for the US healthcare industry's change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 for diagnosis and inpatient procedure coding.
Video slideshow presentations from the following National Provider Calls are available on the CMS YouTube Channel. These video slideshows include the call slide presentation and audio with captions; each call includes presentations by CMS subject matter experts, followed by a question and answer session.
The ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Cooperating Parties – CMS, the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – discuss ICD-10 implementation strategies and planning, and the CMS Provider Billing Group discuss the Medicare FFS claims processing guidance issued in August 2011.
CMS subject matter experts discuss how physician offices can prepare for the change to ICD-10 for medical diagnosis and inpatient procedure coding and provide updates on national ICD-10 implementation issues affecting all providers.
CMS subject matter experts discuss the ICD-10 conversion process currently taking place within CMS, including a case study from the Coverage and Analysis Group on their transition to ICD-10 for the lab national coverage determinations (NCDs).
Podcasts, complete audio files, and complete written transcripts for these ICD-10 National Provider Calls are also available on the CMS ICD-10 webpage at http://www.CMS.gov/ICD10/Tel10/list.asp.
Available 24/7, YouTube video presentations and podcasts make learning about the ICD-10 transition easy and convenient. Check them out today.
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