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Use Caution When Entering the Crosswalk: A Warning About Relying on GEMs as Your ICD-10 Solution

Pain: Healthcare practitioners and administrators are increasingly aware of the significant time in training and implementation that will be required for the mandatory migration to the new ICD-10 coding environment. Insufficient preparation will result in inaccurate coding, escalating queries, delayed billing and denials of reimbursements.

Many professionals believe that General Equivalence Mapping tools (GEMS), offer an easy “crosswalk” between ICD-9 and ICD-10. Unfortunately, GEMs as “crosswalks” is seriously flawed and not designed for this purpose at all.

Painkiller: Migration to the new system is not a coding problem at all. It is actually a clinical documentation problem. Understanding this and adopting Computer Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) solutions that incorporate clinical documentation in their DNA and deal with it at the point-of-care will avoid countless wasted hours and effort.

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