• E-mail
• Print
• RSS

News: Survey shows ICD-10 transition successful at 80% of organizations; ACDIS poll shows 'minimal' effect on query efforts

CDI Strategies, December 10, 2015

Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to CDI Strategies!

The transition to ICD-10 has gone smoothly for 80% of organizations, according to a survey conducted by KPMG, LLC. A group of 298 attendees of the November 9 webcast, “ICD-10: Just the Beginning,” hosted by KPMG, responded to the survey, which found that 28% said the transition has been smooth and 51% said they have experienced a few technical issues, but have overall been successful. Only 11% described the transition as a failure.

The largest challenges respondents reported include clinical documentation and physician education, rejected medical claims, and reduced revenue from coding delays, with 42% attributing ICD-10 as the main reason for these issues, according to the survey.

The expansion from 13,000 to 68,000 diagnostic codes has a number of organizations (46%) considering initiatives such as clinical documentation improvement, revenue cycle optimization, and electronic health record optimization, the survey found. However, 25% said they are not currently pursuing these options.

In response to the question “Has your query rate increased since ICD-10 implementation?” on the ACDIS website, most of 552 respondents indicated the transition hasn’t increased their queries per se. Responses included:

• 52%-Not really, we are still asking the same documentation queries we'd been asking
• 28%-Yes, but minimally, around 5-10% increase
• 16%Yes, extensively, but as expected around 11-30%
• 3%-Don't know

Click here to view a replay of the KPMG webcast. 

Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to CDI Strategies!

• E-mail to a Colleague
• Print
• RSS
• Archive