What will your practice do if your state workers' comp does not require acceptance of ICD-10-CM codes after Oct. 1, 2014?

By Chuck Buck
Original story posted on: November 13, 2012

Podcast Date: 11/13/2012

What will your practice do if your state workers' comp does not require acceptance of ICD-10 CM codes after Oct. 1 2014?

	Number of Response(s)	Response Ratio
A. Maintain dual billing systems for at least one year	108	55%
B. Submit I-10-CM codes with electronic claims, let payer map	49	25%
C. Submit paper workers' comp claims, hand enter 1-9-CM codes	35	18%
D. Limit the number of workers' compensation patients seen	1	1%
E. Discontinue seeing workers' compensation patients	3	2%
Total Results:	196	100%

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