The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold a series of national provider calls that will provide an overview of ICD-10-CM and how it differs from ICD-9-CM. The presentations will include the major impacts providers should consider when planning to update any systems with ICD-10 codes. Issues such as differences in code length, alpha-numeric characters, and increased details captured by the codes will be explained. For the provider, payer, vendor, and publishing community, this overview will help them think about future reporting, system updates, and training, considering that ICD-10 may be implemented in the future.
Separate conference calls have been scheduled for each provider type: hospital staff (Oct. 14), other Part A and Part B providers (Nov. 12), and physicians (Nov. 17). The same information will be presented at each conference call. Read the press release.
