Healthcare businesses seeking an assessment of their exposure to financial risk in relation to ICD-10 compliance have a new online tool at their disposal. The HIMSS ICD-10 Task Force and Jvion, a healthcare compliance technology and services organization, announced on June 27 the release of their collaboratively developed ICD-10 Financial Risk Calculator.
"This tool will help providers set priorities for their ICD-10 planning and conversion efforts to improve their reimbursements," said Dwan Thomas Flowers, co-chair of the HIMSS ICD-10 Task Force.
The new interactive resource prompts businesses to answer a short survey.
"By simply answering a short survey, providers receive unique insight into the powerful impacts of ICD-10, steps they can take to address those impacts and ways to augment their accounts receivable even before they complete their conversion to ICD-10," said Juliet Santos, HIMSS senior director of business-centered systems.
[Related: AMA adds new wrinkle to ICD-10 delay: ICD-11.]
For example, after identifying organization type as a physician practice in an ambulatory setting with between 1 and 25 practicing providers, the survey asks questions such as:
• In what general range were your 2011 revenues?
• What is your average denial rate?
• What percentage of your revenue comes from Medicare?
• What is your largest specialty by revenue?
• What is your revenue cycle?
• What is your current daily average claim acceptance rate into your clearinghouse?
• What percentage of your current credit line(s) are you using to fund operations?
• Do you have an EMR upgrade of other major system upgrade that is currently under way or planned within the next year?
• Do you have a process in place to measure reimbursements against contract-negotiated amounts?
• Who will be assigning diagnosis codes when ICD-10-CM is implemented?
All information entered into the calculator remains anonymous. You may preview the survey prior to completing it. At the end of the survey, the business receives individual financial risk ratings across revenue, operational cost and cash flow categories as well as relative risk ratings, which enable comparison of risk ratings within your peer group.
The calculator also generates specific mitigating steps that can be taken to address your financial risk exposure and optimize reimbursements.
You may e-mail a copy of the report to yourself or another recipient. It takes two to three days to receive a copy of your report.
