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ICD-10 in 2014

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With less than one year to go until the October 1, 2014, <a href="http://icd-10-training.blogspot.com/2013/01/assembling-icd-10-project-team.html">ICD-10 compliance</a> date, now is the time to assess your progress. CMS continues to work with health care organizations to develop and distribute a variety of resources to help you with your ICD-10 planning and preparation.</div>
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No matter where you are in your transition, there are ICD-10 resources available to you. Check the provider resources page on the CMS website frequently for news and information to help you prepare, and visit your professional organization’s website for resources tailored specifically to your needs. These resources can help you:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Plan your journey</strong> – Look at the codes you use, prepare a budget, and build a team</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Train your team </strong>– Many options and resources are available</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Engage your partners </strong>– Talk to your software vendors, clearinghouses, and <a href="http://medicalbillerscompanies.blogspot.com/">medical billing services</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Test your systems and processes –</strong> Test within your practice and with your partners</li>
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<strong><a href="http://icd-10-training.blogspot.com/">2014 is the year of ICD-10</a>.</strong> The ICD-10 transition will affect every part of your  practice, from software upgrades, to patient registration and referrals, to clinical  documentation and billing. With everyone in health care working toward a  successful transition, now is the time to make sure you are ready too.</div>
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<strong>Keep Up to Date on ICD-10</strong></div>
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Visit the CMS ICD-10 website for the latest news and resources to help you prepare for the October 1, 2014, compliance date. <a href="http://cmsandcodingupdates.blogspot.com/">Sign up for CMS ICD-10 Industry</a> Email Updates and follow us on Twitter.</div>
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Understanding the ICD-10 Impact on Dental Billing Practices

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If you are a dental practitioner, with the <a href="http://icd-10-training.blogspot.com/">ICD 10 implementation</a> deadline nearing, you are worried not just about successfully transitioning to ICD 10 CM. But also whether you fully understand ICD 10, for example, do you understand its coding intricacies, is your dental practice geared to be on ICD without any operational or financial adversities, is your practice technologically ready to handle ICD 10 and so on.</div>
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The need to <a href="http://icd-10-training.blogspot.com/2012/12/three-action-steps-for-icd-10.html">understand ICD 10</a> and its applications intricately is more important than it was to understand ICD 9. ICD 10 is more specific in nature than its predecessor accounting for finer ailments and sub-ailments which either used to be covered by fewer codes, each code covering multiple sub-conditions, or altogether miss being covered.</div>
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In the context of dentistry, by netting these finer dental areas in its coding network through greater classifications, ICD 10 CM (with approximately 69,000 codes) presents you the opportunity to claim the areas of dental billing which previously used to go unclaimed or result in rejected claims falling out of a less coherent net of ICD 9 CM with 13,600 codes, amounting to sizable chunks of unpaid dental services.
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<strong>However, this intricate nature also requires a nuanced understanding for <a href="http://medicalbillerscompanies.blogspot.com/">billing and coding success</a>.</strong></div>
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The procedural and diagnostic codes contained in ICD 10 CM are available under two categories, Diseases of the Digestive System and Factors influencing health status and contact with health services. This means you not only have to figure out which codes will apply to the services you provide but also establish documentarily that they belong to the ICD 10 categories and subcategories you are coding them under. These areas are key to billing and coding and although these may be just two areas – coding and supporting documentation – they have a wide impact cutting across operations of your dental practice.</div>
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<strong>To address these areas related to dental billing, you have to: </strong></div>
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<li>Train your staff on <a href="http://cmsandcodingupdates.blogspot.com/">ICD 10 CM charting and coding</a></li>
<li>Perform a successful cross-walk between treatment and diagnostic codes</li>
<li>Ensure proper storage of documentation and diagnostic records for easy reference and usage</li>
<li>Check management of processes like patient cost and quotes, patient scripting, claim submission etc</li>
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MBC has helped several dental practices, both in small and big cities of the US, to overcome their ICD 10 CM dental medical billing concerns – transition to ICD 10 CM successfully and be on it smoothly. MBC’s Revenue Management Consulting services can help you by assessing your revenue management cycle and gearing it up for ICD 10 by facilitating smooth flow of dental data, installation of proper software applications and providing guidance on staff training on how to handle ICD 10 CM.</div>
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<strong>We can help you to understand and prepare for:</strong></div>
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<li>ICD 10 impact on your dental practice</li>
<li>Basics of ICD 10 implementation for dental billing</li>
<li>Documentation challenges related to dental billing</li>
<li>The new <a href="http://icd-10-training.blogspot.com/2013/02/icd-10-spotlight-know-codes-coding.html">ICD-10 coding</a> structure</li>
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Medicalbillersandcoders.com the largest consortium of billers and coders in the US, has also been helping many dental practices overcome ICD 10 concerns with its Outsourcing services handling the entire range of activities involved in dental <a href="http://medicalbillerscompanies.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-radiologists-can-refine-their.html">medical billing and coding</a> starting from preparation of claims through submission to post-submission follow-ups. Our service modules are flexible that allow you to pick and choose only those bits and pieces of our services that meet your coding needs so that you can avoid paying additional cost.</div>
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Understanding the ICD-10 Impact on Dental Billing Practices

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Don’t let ICD-10 Coding Changes Disrupt Cash Flow of Your Practice

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The deadline to implement ICD-10 is approaching and it has become extremely

important for practices to make necessary preparations. Transition to the new

coding system will require significant changes in all aspects of medical

reimbursement including providers, payers, vendors, billers and so on. If there is

lack of preparation it will lead to disruption in the revenue cycle of practices.</div>
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<b>Challenges related to <a href="http://www.medicalbillersandcoders.com/ICD-10.aspx" target="_blank" title="ICD-10">ICD-10</a>:</b></div>
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Apart from buying new technology and learning new codes

there are various difficulties in ICD-10 implementation that might lead to

disrupted cash flow of your practice:</div>
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<li>Under project planning challenges, practices will have to establish co-

ordination and schedule meetings, conduct training and education sessions, hire

consultants, communicate with vendors and create impact assessments</li>
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<li>Practices will have to face financial planning challenges under which DRG

shifts, payer delays, decline in productivity of coders and operational costs

incurred in hiring certified coders will create financial problems</li>
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<li>Computer-assisted coding will have to be implemented, workplace will have

to be enhanced and EHR will have to be upgraded if practices want to avoid

challenges related to productivity due to ICD-10</li>
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<li>Practices will have to invest time in informing all staff members about coding

changes and establish co-ordination with vendors, healthcare payers and

consultants</li>
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<li>Clinical documentation will also change as per ICD-10 and in case of errors, it

will become difficult to submit accurate claims</li>
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<b>How can ICD-10 disrupt cash flow of your practice?</b><br />
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A lot of planning and effort will be required to ensure that the

above-mentioned challenges don’t affect the <a href="http://www.medicalbillersandcoders.com/services.aspx" target="_blank" title="Revenue Cycle

Management">revenue cycle management</a> of your practice.</div>
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<li>Cash flow will get disrupted if the coders at your practice are not trained to

handle the new code sets</li>
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<li>Since ICD-10 implementation will increase time for medical claim processing,

your billing staff will have to be efficient in claim filing or else it will lead to

delayed or no payment</li>
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<li>With ICD-10, clinicians and physicians will have to devote more time to

attend increased queries. The new coding system will increase documentation

requirements and if physicians don’t pay attention on this aspect, coding will not

be accurate, again resulting in delayed or lost payment</li>
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<li>Patient number will increase, leaving providers with less time to train staff,

revise forms, documents and encounter forms and if this is not handled on time, it

can affect the financial health of practices</li>
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Due to lack of time, money and resources, a large number of

practices are not able to prepare for ICD-10 transition the way they should.

Instead, they are seeking help from a billing partner to handle all the issues and

ensure timely payments.<br />
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Medicalbillersandcoders.com is the largest consortium of

coders and billers that can help your practice in smooth transition to ICD-10. Our

team has the required expertise to handle coding changes, eliminating your

headache of hiring, training, technology upgrading and so on. MBC will

strengthen your revenue cycle and give you ample time to focus on patient

care.</div>
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Billers and Coders Help Providers Adapt To ICD-10 Documentation Changes!

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  ICD-10 scheduled to be implemented by October 1, 2014, offers various 
advantages including enabling clinicians to capture laterality and 
others concepts in a standardized manner, which supports data exchange 
and increased efficiency. However this is bound to affect clinical 
documentation significantly, and propel physicians and billers and 
coders to upgrade their clinical documentation to make it ICD-10 
compatible.<br />
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<strong>How will ICD-10 affect Clinical Documentation?</strong><br />
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Though ICD-10 will not alter patient care in any manner; but it will 
definitely make clinical documentation very detailed, due to the 
increased specificity in choices for coding diagnoses. Moreover medical 
records will also require to be documented as much as possible by coders
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Though most of the information needed is already shared during the 
patient – visit, it will require accurate recording by the medical 
billers and coders- which will eventually help in reducing the need for 
follow ups on submitted claims, hence increasing saving and revenue 
earned. Coders would also require learning new ICD-10 codes; to ensure 
complete documentation and accurate selection of ICD-10 codes, an 
essential for patient care.<br />
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<strong>Adapting to changes with the help of Biller and Coders-</strong><br />
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Medical billers and coders can help by working with physicians in order to improve documentation to –<br />

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   Evaluate the current documentation system at the practice, to help find most often used codes in the practice</li>
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   Determine if the future documentation will be specific and detailed enough to choose the best ICD-10 codes</li>
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   Improve overall documentation of clinical services and help achieve 
specific, detailed clinical documentation required to assign ICD-10 
codes</li>
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<strong>Are the Documentation processes ICD-10-Ready?</strong><br />
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Billers and Coders can ensure that the documentation is ICD-10 ready by following these steps-<br />

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   Comprehend how ICD-10 will affect the practice by <strong>reviewing the current documentation</strong>.</li>
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   <strong>Identify the complete extent of the ICD-10 transition</strong> to help reduce the chance of overlooking any areas which require ICD-10 updates.</li>
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   Ensure all possible gaps in the process have been worked out by <strong>testing ICD-10</strong>, right from documentation to communicating with different vendors.</li>
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   Help find <strong>appropriate ICD-10 codes</strong> which correspond with the most often-used ICD-9 codes at the practice.</li>
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All these steps will also help in emphasizing the information which 
needs to be primarily looked into while documenting for ICD-10.<br />
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The initial impact of ICD-10 on physicians’ post transition will be on
 clinical documentation; hence the coders’ knowledge about the essential
 demands of clinical documentation under ICD-10; can be a crucial 
support to physicians. Besides demonstrating an essential level of 
coding capability, coders also require to be resourceful in testing.<br />
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Hence as you (medical billers and coders along with physicians) work 
towards meeting the challenges of the altering clinical documentation 
mandatory for the subsequent ICD-10 transition, <a href="http://www.medicalbillersandcoders.com/" rel="nofollow">Medicalbillersandcoders.com</a> – the largest consortium of medical billers and coders across all 50 US States offers regular <a href="http://www.medicalbillersandcoders.com/ICD-10/scope-of-the-icd10-program--icd10-the-humongous-task-in-front-of-us.html" rel="nofollow">ICD-10 updates and training</a>. Our unique Training Program on <a href="http://www.medicalbillersandcoders.com/ICD-10.aspx" rel="nofollow">ICD-10 Transition</a>
 – including updates, webinars, forums, and online learning materials – 
should help make your clinical documentation improvement job more 
meaningful and fulfilling.<br />

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