2022 brought many challenges for revenue cycle leaders, and COVID-19 reporting was no exception. This past year was trying for hospitals for many reasons. From staffing shortages to financial ...

There's a lot being said about the importance of ICD-10 end-to-end testing. But why? Healthcare providers need to know what they are looking for. A set of testing goals will help guide medical ...

CMS extensively covers ICD-10 implementation testing scenarios in its “ICD-10 Implementation Guide for Small and Medium Practices,” according to an ICD-10 Watch report. Prior to testing, study your ...

Medicare fee-for-service providers, clearinghouses and billing agencies built on earlier successes during the final end-to-end testing week in July, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

"CMS is ready for ICD-10," said outgoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner this week, pointing to 660 providers and billing companies that submitted some 15,000 ...

Testing is going to make or break your ICD-10 transition. That is when you will find out if your project plan is working correctly. While there hasn't been a whole lot of ICD-10 testing done yet there ...

CMS has released the results from its final ICD-10 testing week, producing similar results to the previous testing week. Between July 20 and July 24, approximately 1,200 providers submitted 29,286 ...

During an ICD-10 testing week in March, CMS accepted 89 percent of the more than 127,000 test ICD-10 claims sent to the agency’s Medicare fee-for-service system. All testers received an ...

New diagnostic codes that describe a patient as under-immunized against COVID-19 were introduced to help doctors identify patients potentially at risk for more-severe COVID and to help health ...