The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) finds that healthcare
providers and health plans have fallen behind recommended timelines for the
government-mandated switchover to the ICD-10 diagnostic code set, which is
scheduled for Oct. 1, 2013. The results of the latest WEDI survey add more
details to those of a just-released KLAS poll that shows the same alarming
trend.
According to WEDI, most surveyed software vendors expect to finish testing
their
ICD-10 upgrades in 2012 and deliver the products to their customers in the
second half of next year. However, the vendors said that interest in these
products is still low among healthcare providers.
Most health plans have not completed a full impact analysis of ICD-10, although
the WEDI timeline recommends completion in January 2011. Approximately
two-thirds of the plans indicated that they would not be ready for external
testing until sometime after the recommended date of January 2013.
Providers also reported being behind on their impact analyses, and
three-quarters of them indicated that they would not be ready to test ICD-10 by
January 2013.
Provider organizations said that other IT priorities, including electronic
health records and the transition to the 5010 transaction set, were competing
with ICD-10 for budget dollars and personnel. As a result, they said, they were
unable to devote their full efforts to ICD-10 compliance.
"These results are showing that the industry is not progressing quickly enough
on the timeline to assure us that they will be ready in October 2013," Jim
Schuping, CEO and President of WEDI, said in a press release. "We would urge
entities to increase their implementation effort or we will be facing an
extremely difficult situation in 2013."
The KLAS report found that less than 10 percent of providers had passed the
halfway mark in their ICD-10 preparations. KLAS recommends that lagging
providers hire outside consultants to help them accelerate their efforts.
David Frenkel
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