ICD-10 Preparation

The US Department of Health and Human Services has mandated that healthcare providers must implement ICD-10-CM by October 1st, 2013.

Have you begun planning for this transition?

Wairever Inc. and Plexina can solve this problem for you. Using our proprietary technology, Plexina logically matches clinical content with the appropriate codes using ICD-9 and/or ICD-10.

During this critical transition phase, providers will need to simultaneously maintain ICD-9 and ICD-10 coding. The Plexina Clinical Content Management platform allows mapping clinical content to ICD-10 thus enabling compliance, and eliminating contextual coding errors. This also satisfies “Meaningful Use” requirements as defined by the 2009 ARRA. Contact us for more information on how we can help you transition.

Quick ICD-10 facts

Issue ICD-9-CM ICD-10-CM
Volume of codes approximately 13,600 approximately 68,000
Composition of codes Mostly numeric, with E and V codes alphanumeric. Valid codes of three, four, or five digits. All codes are alphanumeric, beginning with a letter and with a mix of numbers and letters thereafter. Valid codes may have three, four, five, six or seven digits.
Duplication of code sets Currently, only ICD-9-CM codes are required . No mapping is necessary. For a period of up to two years, systems will need to access both ICD-9-CM codes and ICD-10-CM codes as the country transitions from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM. Mapping will be necessary so that equivalent codes can be found for issues of disease tracking, medical necessity edits and outcomes studies.