Follow-Up National Provider Call regarding ICD-10 Implementation in a 5010 Environment
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a follow-up national provider conference call on "ICD-10 Implementation in a 5010 Environment". Subject matter experts will review basic information on both ICD-10 and 5010 and explain how they are interrelated. A question and answer session will follow the presentations. When: Monday, September 13, 2010 Time: 12pm - 1:30pm ET Target Audience: Medical coders, physician office staff, provider billing staff, health records staff, vendors, educators, system maintainers and all Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) providers The following topics will be discussed: ICD-10 * ICD-10 implementation for services provided on and after October 1, 2013 * Differences between ICD-10 and ICD-9-CM codes * ICD-10-CM basic information for all users * 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 HIPAA Version 5010 * Compliance dates and timelines (No contingencies) * 5010 before and after ICD-10 Implementation * Readiness review for implementing HIPAA version 5010 and D.0 * What you need to be doing to prepare * Medicare fee-for-service activities update * Other issues and considerations For more information and to register for this informative session, please go to http://www.cms.gov/ICD10/02c_CMS_Sponsored_Calls.asp on the CMS website. Registration will close at 12pm ET on September 10, 2010, or when available space has been filled. No exceptions will be made. Please register early. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a FFS provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Lis tservs.pdf) . If you received this message as part of the All FFS Providers listserv, you are currently subscribed to one of eighteen Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listservs. If you would like to be removed from all NIH listservs, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm) to unsubscribe. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
