CMS offers four-pronged ICD-10 testing approach
Backing up the final rule cementing Oct. 1, 2015, as the new implementation date for ICD-10, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has outlined a "comprehensive four-pronged approach" to help providers prepare.
The plan includes the following:
- Internal testing by CMS of its claims processing systems
- Provider-initiated beta testing tools
- Acknowledgement testing
- End-to-end testing
For the end-to-end efforts, CMS says approximately 2,550 volunteer providers will have three separate opportunities for testing with the goals of determining whether providers can successfully submit claims with ICD-10 codes to the Medicare fee-for-service claims systems; to demonstrate that CMS software changes in support of ICD-10 will result in "appropriately adjudicated claims;" and to ensure that accurate remittance advice is produced.
Access more information about the preparations here.
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