Everyone is preparing for ICD-10-CM readiness, even the payers. Yes they are conducting system checks as well as updating their existing systems in order for claims to have a smooth payer transition but lets look a little deeper at this situation. Every month as you conduct your end of month close out on accounts, you run numerous reports CORRECT? Well wouldn't it make sense the the insurance companies are running reports as well, and guess what they have that automatically targets your practice. All the erorrs and rejections you send them each and every month. Now if I were a betting man, I would bet they aren't that concerned about you correcting an issue for ICD-10-CM readiness that you have yet to correct for ICD-9-CM. This makes life so much easier for payers to target what areas they can hit you continually with rejections as you transition into ICD-10-CM. Make no mistake about it, can you afford to keep feeding payers information like this, No you cannot!!....the time to fix this issue is NOW!.......don't make it easy for them to deny reimbursement to your office. Take control of your practice now, so you will not have to play Russian Roulet every time you send your claims a out to the payers after Implementation begins.
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