Don't Forget to Register for the CMS ICD-10 Conversion Activities National Provider Teleconference, Including a Lab Case Study The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a national provider teleconference on "CMS ICD-10 Conversion Activities". Subject matter experts will discuss the ICD-10 conversion process currently taking place within CMS, including a case study from the CMS Coverage and Analysis Group on their transition to ICD-10 for the lab national coverage determinations (NCDs). A question and answer session will follow the presentations. When: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET Target Audience: Medical coders, physician office staff, provider billing staff, health records staff, vendors, educators, system maintainers and all Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) providers
The following topics will be discussed: * ICD-10 overview * Lab NCDs conversion process from ICD-9-CM to 1CD-10-CM * Home health conversion * OASIS and procedure code reporting * Update on claims spanning the implementation date * National ICD-10 implementation issues Registration information: To register for this informative session, please go to http://www.cms.gov/ICD10/Tel10/itemdetail.asp?itemID=CMS1246998 on the CMS website. Registration will close at 1:00 p.m. ET on May 17, 2011, or when available space has been filled. No exceptions will be made. Please register early. Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listservs.pdf). If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?INDEX) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
