WEDI, ASC issue ICD-10 prep brief
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) released an ICD-10 issue brief co-written with ASC X12 to help the healthcare industry better undertand where to focus transaction testing to ensure that codes are correctly placed and formatted within the transactions.
WEDI and ASC X12’s issue brief, ICD-10 Impact to HIPAA Transactions, states that, as part of the ICD-10 testing process, it is imperative to assure that ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes are accurately passed from providers through to payers within the transactions required under HIPAA to exchange diagnosis and procedure information. The issue brief provides information on the transactions that are impacted by ICD-10 as well as the placement of the codes within the transactions. Knowing where all of the touch points are will help facilitate implementation and testing.
“Although it can be argued that implementation of version 5010 of the ASC X12 transactions tested the format that will be used to carry ICD-10 codes, the industry did not focus on assuring that ICD-10 codes were correctly assigned and reflected on these transactions or that ICD-10 codes were correctly processed in front end applications,” said Jim Daley, WEDI chairman. “This document will help highlight the transactions and content that will need to be validated as part of the ICD-10 testing effort.”
The ICD-10 Impact to HIPAA Transactions issue brief was written by WEDI’s ICD-10 Workgroup and ASC X12 staff members and is available for download on the WEDI website.
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