The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has scheduled a series of national provider calls that will offer an overview of ICD-10 and how it differs from ICD-9-CM.
The presentations will include the major impacts providers should consider when planning to update any systems with ICD-10 codes. CMS officials said issues such as differences in code length, alpha-numeric characters, and increased details captured by the codes will also be explained.
CMS intends the overview to help the provider, payer, vendor, and publishing communities think about future reporting, system updates, and training, considering that ICD-10 may be implemented in the future.
The presenters will include members of the Cooperating Parties for ICD-9-CM, a formal coalition that has been working together on ICD-10 issues. The role of each will be explained, along with a similar role they will play should ICD-10 be implemented.
The Cooperating Parties include CMS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Health Information Management Association, and the American Hospital Association.
CMS has scheduled separate conference calls for each provider type, but says the same information would be presented at each conference call.
The CMS ICD-10 conference call schedule:
- Hospital Staff: Oct. 14, 2008 - 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
- Other Part A and Part B Providers: Nov. 12, 2008 - 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EST
- Physicians: Nov. 17, 2008 - 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EST