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October | November 2008 HHS Proposes Adoption of ICD-10 Code Sets and Updated Electronic Transaction Standards by Rich Wilson According to HHS, the proposed new diagnoses codes, ICD-10, are designed to improve disease tracking and speed transition to an electronic health care environment. The new codes will become effective October 1, 2011, and will greatly expand the number of codes; allowing for quality reporting, pay-for-performance, biosurveillance, and other critical activities. In 2000 the ICD-9 codes, under authority provided by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), code sets were adopted for use in the administrative transactions by both the public and private sectors to report diagnoses and inpatient hospital procedures. Covered entities required to use the ICD-9-CM code sets include health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers who transmit any electronic health information in connection with a transaction for which a standard has been adopted by HHS. Having been developed three decades ago, ICD-9 is now viewed as outdated because of its limited ability to accommodate new procedures and diagnoses. ICD-9 contains only 17,000 codes and is expected to start running out of available codes next year. In contrast, the ICD-10 code sets contain more than 155,000 codes and accommodate a host of new diagnoses and procedures. The additional codes will help to enable the implementation of electronic health records because they will provide more detail in the electronic transactions. Implementing these new codes will cost practices money for software changes, training, and lost revenue while learning how to use the new system. Cost estimates are divided by the size of the practice: A typical “small” practice is comprised of three physicians and two impacted administrative staff, a typical “medium” practice is comprised of 10 providers, one full-time coder, and six impacted administrative staff, and a typical “large” practice, comprised of 100 providers, with 64 coding staff comprised of 10 full-time coders and 54 impacted medical records staff. 10 Continued, see HHS page 21
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