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ICD-10 is here for most home health agencies, whether they are ready or not.
Unprepared agencies will face 鈥渄ecreased productivity and rejected听reimbursement claims鈥� as immediate challenges following implementation, according to Jennifer Gibson; RN, HCS-D and COS-C, and has also been conducting ICD-9 and ICD-10 coding training for 小猪视频, a leading healthcare technology and education accredited company.
Gibson said a lack of practice in actually coding in ICD-10-CM may slow the agencies down, resulting in a backlog in OASIS-C1 processing.
鈥淚f agencies can鈥檛 code OASIS, they can鈥檛 bill,鈥� Gibson said. 鈥淭his听cash flow interruption will be one of the biggest issues agencies face for the next six months or so.鈥�
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