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In less than 30 days ICD-10 will be in effect. Are you ready?
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I-Search is AXIOM Systems' newest tool that will allow users to perform ICD9 to ICD10 translations, ICD10 to ICD9 translations, and to do lookups of ICD9 & ICD10 codes and descriptions.
I-Search is a powerful and intuitive tool that will allow you to look for codes by entering either the full code or first characters of a code. You may also enter a single word or a series of words in one line to search for words in a code's textual description. You may also search by a standard medical abbreviation, such as URI or MRI (Note: proper medical terminology must be used when searching by text. For example, "cancer" is not a proper term, but "neoplasm" will be found.)
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Deadline Set for ICD-10
On July 31, HHS issued a rule finalizing October 1, 2015 as the new compliance date for health care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses to transition to ICD-10. This deadline allows providers, insurance companies, and others in the health care industry time to ramp up their operations to ensure their systems and business processes are ready to go on October 1, 2015.
The ICD-10 codes on a claim are used to classify diagnoses and procedures on claims submitted to Medicare and private insurance payers. By enabling more detailed patient history coding, ICD-10 can help to better coordinate a patient's care across providers and over time. ICD-10 improves quality measurement and reporting, facilitates the detection and prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse, and leads to greater accuracy of reimbursement for medical services. The code set's granularity will improve data capture and analytics of public health surveillance and reporting, national quality reporting, research and data analysis, and provide detailed data to enhance health care delivery. Health care providers and specialty groups in the United States provided extensive input into the development of ICD-10, which includes more detailed codes for the conditions they treat and reflects advances in medicine and medical technology.
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