New 2018 ICD-10 codes have been released by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) containing approximately 363 new codes, 142 deletions, and over 250 code revisions. The updated 2018 ICD-10-CM and 2018 ICD-10-PCS codes must be used for discharges and patient encounters from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018.
Action must be taken now to be in regulatory compliance and to avoid claims processing interruption.
CMS Guidelines for ICD-10 Coding and Reporting FY 2018 are available here.
REQUIRED NEXT STEPS
All clients, including those managed by NextGen Managed Cloud Services, are required to take action to update ICD-10 codes. To avoid rejections and denials due to ICD-10 code changes, we urge you to take action now. Please read on for details.
To ensure a smooth transition, NextGen Healthcare has created an article titled 2018 ICD-10 Update Process Overview on the Success Community. This article contains step-by-step instructions outlining actions you need to complete to update your ICD-10 codes.
If you have any additional concerns or questions, please email AskICD10@nextgen.com or submit a case through the NextGen Success Community using the category Practice Management and the topic PM Financial or the category of Knowledge Base Model (KBM) and the topic of KBM Ancillary Tools if it is KBM related.