February 2011 Newsletter
Progress on the Transition to ICD-10
The Quadax ICD-10 Committee is busy working towards a smooth transition to ICD-10 codes in October of 2013. The ICD-10 Committee, an aggregate of representatives from all Quadax application teams, has the responsibility of determining how each application team will implement ICD-10 in their products and how each application will manage the exchange points between the various applications. At every meeting, committee members discuss the progress made on a series of milestones necessary to ensure that Quadax is prepared for the transition well before the October 1, 2013, transition date. These important milestones include:
- Understanding the ICD-10 coding methodology
- Preparing and implementing the ANSI-5010 format standards
- Evaluating the impact of ICD-10 on NCD/LCD policy
- Taking inventory of all Quadax applications that will need updates
- Creating projects to update Quadax applications
- Assigning company resources to ICD-10 update projects
- Informing our client base of Quadax’s progress
- Sharing ideas with our clients about how to address the ICD-10 transition
As we’ve moved towards the implementation date for ICD-10, the ICD-10 Committee expanded to include staff from our client services, application support, and technical support departments. The committee has invited these employees who are in day-to-day contact with our clients to voice the concerns they hear about ICD-10 directly to the Systems staff. This will allow Quadax to more easily respond to our client’s concerns by tailoring our software changes in a way that helps make this transition comfortable and easy, as well as keep Quadax’s client representatives knowledgeable of the progress that Quadax is making on the transition to ICD-10.
Another milestone that Quadax has achieved is our inventory of applications that are affected by the ICD-10 transition. This has allowed us to proactively integrate changes to facilitate the ICD-10 transition into changes that are being implemented both with the 5010 transition and normal system updates. For example, recent changes that were implemented in how Xpeditor handles institutional claims made to handle the upcoming change to the 5010 claim format, integrated not only a change to handle the larger number of diagnosis codes allowed on a 5010 claim, but was also programmed to handle the large size of the ICD-10 code.
Quadax will continue to provide updates on the progress of our transition to ICD-10 in future newsletters, so be sure to keep an eye out for the next Q Tips!