Endocrine Insider
June 10, 2010

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has scheduled a national provider conference call for Tuesday, June 15 from 12:00  – 2:00 pm ET to cover the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition (ICD-10)  and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act version 5010 (HIPAA 5010) implementation. The agenda will feature the U.S. health care industry's change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 medical diagnosis and inpatient procedure coding. ICD-10 codes must be used on all HIPAA transactions on and after October 1, 2013, including outpatient claims with dates of service and inpatient claims with dates of discharge.

Specific topics to be addressed on the call include:

• ICD-10 implementation for services provided on and after October 1, 2013
• Benefits of ICD-10
• Differences between ICD-10 and ICD-9-Clinical Modification (CM) codes 
• Tools for converting codes – General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs)
• Proposal to freeze ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 code updates except for new technologies and diseases
• General Overview HIPAA version 5010 and version D.0. (pharmacy claims) and who is affected
• Compliance dates
• Benefits
• 5010 scope versus ICD-10 scope
• Timelines and how to prepare
• Medicare FFS implementation of HIPAA version 5010 and D.0
• Impact on paper claim forms

For more information and to register for the call, please go to http://www.cms.gov/ICD10/02c_CMS_Sponsored_Calls.asp#TopOfPage on the CMS website.