There has been a lot of talk over the past few months about the CMS-mandated migration from ICD-9 to ICD-10, along with the separate but related adoption of ANSI 5010 for electronic claims.
Much of that talk has been around trying to get the compliance date of October 1, 2013 moved back a couple of years, but it's looking more and more like that won't happen.
CMS has made some good information available on their website, including (brace yourself) a crosswalk table that translates back and forth between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM and -PCS. It's called the General Equivalence Mappings (or GEMs), and this guide answers 10 questions about what the GEMs are, how they came about, and how to use them.
This isn't for the faint of heart, but I'm sure our Engineering team is going to have a great time building tools into AdvancedMD to help our customers navigate the switch. We'll need to put those tools in place well in advance of the October 2013 deadline and provide training to our users.
CMS will be hosting a telephone conference on May 19th to discuss the implementation of ICD-10 and explain how the GEMs work.
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