Virtusa offers ICD-10 migration assessment

Virtusa, a global IT services consulting company, has designed a customized migration assessment tool to help healthcare organizations determine the potential financial impact of transitioning from ICD-9 to ICD-10.

The conversion, which is mandated to take effect by October 2013, will multiply the number of available diagnosis and procedure codes from the current 24,000 to more than 155,000, according to the Westborough, Mass.-based company.

Virtusa’s complimentary, cloud-based financial modeling tools allow organizations to test various pricing scenarios and gauge the economic impact on different areas of operation, including:

  • Billing and payment schemes
  • Provider billing practices
  • Use of mapping tools
  • Medical policy coding
  • Coding errors
  • Fraud and abuse prevention

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