With the countdown to ICD-10 at just under five months, now would be a perfect time to spend some time reviewing your practice superbill or fee ticket.
If you are still relying on a paper superbill to document your patient encounters, you need to perform a complete makeover of your current ICD-9 version. The 50 to 100 diagnosis codes that cover most of your patient visits (which fit nicely on a single page) will expand to multiple pages with the expanded library of ICD-10 choices.
A one-to-one match of ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes is not very common. The inclusion of laterality and site of injury details in the new set of codes will likely result in noticeable growth in the length of your superbill.
Tools are available to aid your office in the transition to ICD-10 codes and a necessary revision of your superbill. A listing of your most commonly used diagnosis codes can be converted to a listing of the ICD-10 equivalent codes. This allows work to be done on the creation of a user-friendly ICD-10 version of your superbill while there is still time to address such an important part of your office work flow.
Forward a list of your practice’s most frequently used ICD-9 codes to the Helpdesk and request a mapping of ICD-10 codes to begin your superbill conversion.