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2012 ICD-10 Summit: Strategies for a Successful ICD-10-CM/PCS Transition

Event Type: In Person Meeting

Learning Category: Coding and Reimbursement

Venue: Baltimore Hilton

Location: Baltimore, MD

Date: 4/16/2012 – 4/17/2012

Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST

Event

Online Registration is now closed.  Onsite Registration will be available.

Starting April 12 the Journal of AHIMA Website will feature coverage of topics and speakers from 2012 ICD-10 Summit. 

The annual AHIMA ICD-10-CM/PCS Summit is the premier healthcare industry event dedicated to the exploration of the challenges and opportunities represented in the transition to the ICD-10-CM/PCS coding systems.  This is accomplished through the open discussion and participation of thought leaders from all segments of the healthcare industry, including providers, payers, vendors, consultants, and secondary data users. The 2012 ICD-10-CM/PCS Summit provides a forum for all stakeholders to learn how each industry sector will impact the others.

Proper advance planning and preparation are critical so that organizations can leverage their ICD-10-CM/PCS investments and achieve strategic advantage rather than just compliance.  The 2012 ICD-10-CM/PCS Summit will feature information, resources, and networking opportunities the audience needs to effectively plan and manage the transition process and gain this strategic advantage. Healthcare leaders will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge of “best practices” for implementation preparation and data trending strategies, as well as recommended strategies for effectively managing and coordinating competing priorities.

NEW THIS YEAR A special Early Session breakfast, "Better Late than Never:  How to Catch Up with ICD-10-CM/PCS in 2012."  Held on Monday, April 16, from 7 - 8:15 am, this session is designed for organizations that are behind in their ICD-10-CM/PCS transition planning and preparation. Space is limited so register now to get tips, guidance and strategies for catching up  or staying on track in 2012 and successfully meeting the October 1, 2013 compliance date. There is a minimal additional fee for this session.

Continuing Education Units Available: Approximately 11



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Monday, April 16
 
7–8:15 a.m.
Registration/Continental Breakfast
 
Early Riser Session (additional fee; includes breakfast)
 
7–8:15 a.m.
Better Late than Never: How to Catch Up with ICD-10-CM/PCS in 2012
 
If you haven’t started to prepare for ICD-10, this session will point you in the right direction by providing milestone action steps, what you need to do in the next 18 months, and why. If you’ve already started to prepare, then join this session to see if you’re on the right track.
 
Objectives:
At the end of the session, the attendee will have:
  1. An understanding of the scope of ICD-10’s impact
  2. A list of specific actions to take
  3. A general timeframe in which to accomplish each of the actions
  4. An outline of budget considerations
 
Plenary Sessions
 
8:30–8:45 a.m.
Welcome/Introduction
 
8:45–9:30 a.m.
Keynote Address
 
Dr. Fridsma, director of the Office of Interoperability & Standards at ONC, will discuss his group’s work on convening healthcare stakeholders to solve interoperability challenges, including standards harmonization. Integrating ICD-10 into these efforts will be a key component of their work, thereby helping the nation achieve interoperable health information exchange.
 
 
9:30–10:15 a.m.
CMS and CDC Report on ICD-10 Preparation
 
CMS’ ICD-10 conversion activities in preparation for implementation will be discussed. This will include specific payment policy conversions as well as outreach activities, and will include a discussion of program and surveillance systems impact and public health outreach activities.
 
 
10:15–10:30 a.m. BREAK
 
10:30–11:30 a.m.
Moving from the On-Ramp to the Virtual Health Information Highway: Advancing Accountable Care through ICD-10
 
This presentation addresses the ICD-10 transition within the context of the evolving healthcare environment of accountable care. The healthcare industry is beginning to appreciate the value of collaborating to reduce costs, improve quality and patient safety, and engage patients and their health information across the continuum of care. Imagine for a moment that you are healthcare information traveling through the new virtual technology highway–traveling to patients, physicians, continuum of care providers, and payers. How confident are you that your GPS system will deliver your precise information at the right time, at the right place, and to the right venue? Session attendees will be able to identify opportunities to harness the benefits of ICD-10 for delivery of accountable care.
 
 
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Three Paths to Preparedness: Providers, Payers, and Vendors Speak Out
 
In this panel session, attendees gain important ICD-10 insights from HIM peers in provider, vendor, and payer settings. The panel explores the impact of the ICD-10 conversion process; valuable lessons on breaking down silos; improving communication; using technology to address coder productivity; and making faster progress towards their ICD-10 goals in the year ahead.
 
 
12:30–1:30 p.m. LUNCH
 
EDUCATIONAL TRACKS
 
TRACK 1–ICD-10 Transition: Strategies for Achieving Success
 
1:30–2:30 p.m. (Session 1 of 3)
ICD-10 Implementation Strategies—11 Facilities, One Plan
 
This session provides attendees with the strategies and processes an 11-facility Health System utilized to integrate an effective ICD-10-CM/PCS coding education training program to specific healthcare settings (for example, physician advisors, coders, and CDI), and an example of modeling the impact of ICD-10 transition on reimbursement using real-life success stories.
 
 
2:30–2:45 p.m. Break
 
2:45–3:45 p.m. (Session 2 of 3)
ICD-10 Gaming and Simulation: It’s Your Move…
 
Conducting a gaming and simulation exercise within your organization is a useful tool that can assist in determining some critical decisions, identify tasks, and determine who should be engaged in the effort. This presentation will demonstrate an ICD-10-CM/PCS gaming and simulation exercise that AHIMA conducted with the support of 3M during the AHIMA 2011 Annual Convention. The team’s findings will be presented with some surprising results as to where the priorities were determined to be within the case organization.
 
 
3:45–4 p.m. Break
 
4–5 p.m. (Session 3 of 3)
Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation ICD-10 Conversion and Implementation Project
 
Please join us as we share the trials and tribulations from an information technology and business perspective of the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation (BWC) project plan for implementation of ICD-10. We will discuss the plan for the adoption of ICD-10 as it relates to agency infrastructure, internal policy and procedures, BWC stakeholders, and interested parties.
 
 
TRACK 2—Effective Leadership and Management Strategies
 
1:30–2:30 p.m. (Session 1 of 3)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s ICD-10 Top 10 List
 
In this session, learn about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s 10 most important initiatives as preparation for the ICD-10 transition begins. Representatives from the ICD-10 Transition Project Management Office will discuss how Vanderbilt plans to coordinate remediation of more than 100 informatics applications, implementation of ICD-10 Early Adoption, remediation of hundreds of independent research databases, and improvement of current coding workflow during the transition.
 
 
2:30–2:45 p.m. Break
 
2:45–3:45 p.m. (Session 2 of 3)
Effective Project Risk Management during ICD-10 Implementation
 
With nearly five times more diagnosis codes and 29 times more procedure codes, the ICD-10 transition means significant changes for your organization involving a large volume of tasks and significant risks to healthcare providers. This presentation explores the function, importance, and interaction of Project Risk Management within the ICD-10 Program Management Office.
 
 
3:45–4 p.m. Break
 
4–5 p.m. (Session 3 of 3)
Developing a Facility-Wide ICD-10 Education and Implementation Roadmap and Timeline
 
This session provides critical information on how a healthcare organization can roll out an ICD-10 education and training program. It outlines how different populations in healthcare organizations are affected by ICD-10 and the specific ICD-10 educational needs of each of these groups. Specific curricula and timelines for each population are illustrated through sample education plans.
 
 
TRACK 3–Data Trending and Application of Technology
 
1:30–2:30 p.m. (Session 1 of 3)
ICD Mapping and Data Conversion Best Practices
 
This session includes information on why using the GEMs alone won’t meet your data conversion needs, and use cases for when and how applied maps can help smooth the transition to ICD-10. Lessons learned from payers and providers who have already created thousands of maps between ICD-9 and ICD-10 will also be shared.
 
 
2:30–2:45 p.m. Break
 
2:45–3:45 p.m. (Session 2 of 3)
ICD Maps: Where Will They Lead? A Look at Associating the ICD Codes in a Payer Environment and Implications for the Industry
 
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan recently finished a six-month effort to map (or associate) the ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes in their environment.  Join BCBSM as they open up their BlueGEMs for the healthcare industry, share the lessons they learned, and look ahead to potential issues discovered as part of the mapping process.
 
 
3:45–4 p.m. Break
 
4–5 p.m. (Session 3 of 3)
Looking beyond the Implementation…Are We Safe under ICD-10?
 
This presentation looks beyond the compliance date, and will address questions such as: How will the adoption of ICD-10 impact the Hospital Acquired Conditions (HACs)? What do the HACs look like in ICD-10? How many more codes are included? How can I use the granularity to improve my patient safety reporting?
 
 
TRACK 4–Clinical Documentation Quality Assurance
 
1:30–2:30 p.m. (Session 1 of 3)
Solutions to ICD-10 Documentation Gaps
 
One of the biggest challenges in coding with ICD-9-CM today is obtaining sufficient documentation to support code assignment. Attend this session to understand which diagnoses and procedures require additional specificity for ICD-10-CM/PCS code assignment. Gain critical insights to enable you to prioritize your efforts for success during this critical transition.
 
 
2:30–2:45 p.m. Break
 
2:45–3:45 p.m. (Session 2 of 3)
Documentation: The Root to ICD-10 Success
 
Come to this session to learn who should be on the ICD-10 Documentation Team, and how to leverage resources to determine what documentation are needed within your records today. Learn about some of the ICD-10 changes that affect your documentation and how to recognize passive physician training.
 
 
3:45–4 p.m. Break
 
4–5 p.m. (Session 3 of 3)
Assuring a Solid Foundation through Physician Clinical Documentation to Support ICD-10
 
This session showcases strategies with specific case examples to demonstrate how to effectively engage physicians in the transition to ICD-10, while addressing longstanding documentation gaps and leveraging technology. The speakers provide a blueprint to facilitate a winning strategy, fulfilling a variety of requirements.
 
 
5:30–7 p.m.  Welcome Reception
 
Tuesday, April 17
7–8 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
 
EDUCATIONAL TRACKS
 
TRACK 1–ICD-10 Transition: Strategies for Achieving Success
 
8–9 a.m. (Session 1 of 3)
Predicting Payment Impact of ICD-10 through Analytics
 
This session explores the use of advanced analytics to understand payment impact to a hospital’s bottom line under
ICD-10. We’ll also discuss the use of critical modeling tools and payment formulas to develop a strong financial impact analysis that is a critical part of a hospital’s ICD-10 strategy and hospital case examples.
 
 
9–9:15 a.m. BREAK
 
9:15–10:15 a.m. (Session 2 of 3)
Practical Approaches for ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation from a Payer Perspective
 
This session will deal with the challenges payers confront and overcome with the implementation of ICD-10, with an emphasis on the real-life experience of one payer. It will present and discuss these challenges from a people, process, and technology point of view. This session focuses on the key phases of one payer’s ICD-10 transition program, and highlights the accomplishments to date as well as the challenges being encountered and anticipated as we move toward the compliance date.
 
Scott Hightower, Director of e-Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee
 
10:15–10:30 a.m. BREAK
 
10:30–11:30 a.m. (Session 3 of 3)
Physician Practice Implementation of ICD-10-CM: Making the Process Manageable
 
This session is a must for physicians and their staff! Come learn practical strategies for successfully transitioning physician practices to ICD-10-CM, including ways to maximize resources and how to make the transition manageable. Also, find out how to use the ICD-10-CM transition as an opportunity to manage your practice and patient population more efficiently and effectively.
 
 
TRACK 2–Effective Leadership and Management Strategies
 
8–9 a.m. (Session 1 of 3)
Winning the Amazing Race to ICD-10 Compliance
 
Hear how MemorialCare Health System, a large integrated delivery system, is winning the amazing race to ICD-10 compliance by using their ICD-10 impact assessment and key strategic initiatives to implement an integrated ICD-10 implementation plan that includes hospitals, medical foundation, clinics, and physicians. Physician alignment and revenue cycle strategies are highlighted.
 
 
9–9:15 a.m. BREAK
 
9:15–10:15 a.m. (Session 2 of 3)
Riding the Wave–Avoid the Impact Zone
 
Through discussion of a real-world experience, this presentation provides the audience with practical guidance for actions to take to ensure successful implementation of ICD-10 across a provider organization. Hear how one health system is managing its work with vendors, payers and clearinghouses. This session includes identification of potential risk areas as well as mitigation strategies and will outline metrics that can be used to measure project/program success.
 
 
10:15–10:30 a.m. BREAK
 
10:30–11:30 a.m. (Session 3 of 3)
Managing Risk and Contingency Planning–A Vital Component of Your ICD-10 Program
 
A robust and comprehensive Risk Management program, including Contingency Planning, is a “must have” for your ICD-10 Program. This presentation presents industry best practices around risk management and how those practices must be tailored to address the unique challenges of ICD-10. Also, guidance is provided on how to identify risks that warrant contingency planning as well as key steps for developing your contingency plans.
 
 
TRACK 3–Data Trending and Application of Technology
 
8–9 a.m. (Session 1 of 3)
Prospective and Retrospective Data Modeling and Trending Strategies for ICD-10
 
Attendees at this session will learn key strategies to mitigate business and clinical risks associated with ICD-10 transition. The session will focus on how to map business-critical scenarios for analysis, best practices for retrospective data analysis modeling and strategies to ensure longitudinal data analysis isn’t adversely affected by a particular ICD-10 mapping approach.
 
 
9–9:15 a.m. BREAK
 
9:15–10:15 a.m. (Session 2 of 3)
Leveraging the Electronic Health Record for ICD-10 Required Documentation:  Two Tools, One Goal

This presentation addresses the opportunity for improving productivity in assigning ICD-10 codes through use of the electronic health record and collaboration between physicians and other clinical staff that create, use, modify or generate reports utilizing ICD codes within the care delivery setting.

 
10:15–10:30 a.m. BREAK
 
10:30–11:30 a.m. (Session 3 of 3)
Data Integrity and the EHR—Are You Ready for ICD-10 and Beyond?
 
This presentation outlines the importance of technologies such as speech recognition, Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC) to capture meaningful and complete patient information that enables optimal coding in the ICD-10 era. Industry experts explain the interdependent relationship between the EHR, the NLU-powered dictation, and CAC solutions and demonstrate how critical these solutions are to achieving an accurately coded document. The wide-ranging benefits of effective coding with CAC solutions will be discussed.
 
 
TRACK 4–Special Focus Areas
 
8–9 a.m. (Session 1 of 3)
Provider-Payer Collaboration: Strategies to Test ICD-10
 
This session brings together provider and payer representatives to discuss how the implementation of ICD-10 impacts operations between providers and payers. Collaborative approaches taken to pilot ICD-10 transactions in advance of the compliance deadline, including timeline and practical steps will be reviewed. Attendees can also hear about the challenges associated with collaborative processes, including impacts to budget, people, and technology resources, in addition to other benefits that can be achieved.
 
 
9–9:15 a.m. BREAK
 
9:15–10:15 a.m. (Session 2 of 3)
Automobile Insurance and the Use of ICD-10 Codes
The use of ICD-9-CM by the property casualty industry and this industry’s plans to move to ICD-10 will be discussed. Hear what is driving this movement, the obstacles involved, and the ways the property casualty industry does and does not use ICD data.
 
 
10:15–10:30 a.m. BREAK
 
10:30–11:30 a.m. (Session 3 of 3)
Potential Synergies among Today’s Required Clinical Quality and Reimbursement Programs and ICD-10
 
In this session, the speaker explores the overlapping goals and tasks required by many of the IT-supported clinical projects being undertaken in support of governmentally encouraged efforts to improve the quality of medical care while reducing its costs. Most often, projects such as accountable care organizations, medical homes, meaningful use, and value-based purchasing are dealt with in isolation and by multiple teams. We’ll discuss the pivotal role of ICD-10 conversion in these processes and outline a scheme for the change management needed for success. The impact of ICD-10 on data available for quality improvement and clinical outcomes management is highlighted. The attendee discovers the potential for synergy among the seemingly disparate required programs and an approach to governance that helps accomplish these goals on time and within available resources.

Dr. Glenn Mitchell, Principal, Physician Change Management (previously, Dr. Mitchell was the Chief Medical Officer for Mercy Health System in St Louis, MO)
 
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. LUNCH
 
PLENARY SESSIONS
 
12:30–1 p.m.
CMS ICD-10 Report on State of the Union
 
Group Director Denise Buenning of CMS’ Office of E-health Standards and Services provides a firsthand overview of both the agency’s and industry’s transition to the ICD-10 medical code set, in light of the department’s announcement that it will delay its October 1, 2013 implementation. She will discuss industry concerns, the rationale for the delay, and what HIPAA-covered entities should, and should not, be doing now to get ready for ICD-10 whatever the compliance date may be.
 
Denise Buenning, MsM, Director, Administrative Simplification Group, Office of E-Health Standards and Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
 
1–2 p.m.
CIO Perspectives on ICD-10 Implementation
 
Chief information officers (CIOs) share their perspectives and experiences pertaining to ICD-10 implementation preparation strategies, challenges and how to overcome them, and success factors.
 
 
2–3 p.m.
Health Reform: Payment Systems, Quality Reporting, Value-Based Purchasing, New Delivery Models, and ICD-10 as a Strategic Enabler–How Can We Manage It All?
 
Providers are in the midst of an unprecedented period of change as they deal with national healthcare initiatives aimed at providing more effective and efficient healthcare. Attend this session to learn how ICD-10 will enable higher quality information for measuring healthcare service, quality and safety in the context of evolving healthcare delivery models, and value-based purchasing. Understand how to effectively manage multiple national healthcare initiatives and how ICD-10 serves as a strategic enabler.
 
 
3–3:30 p.m.
How SNOMED CT® Can Help in the ICD-10-CM Transition
 
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) is the most comprehensive clinical healthcare terminology in the world. There are many benefits of using SNOMED CT for clinical documentation in the electronic health record (EHR). However, many existing systems still use ICD-based vocabularies. The transition to ICD-10-CM provides an opportunity to re-think this practice. The National Library of Medicine has created a map from SNOMED CT® to ICD-10-CM to support semi-automatic generation of ICD-10-CM codes based on clinical problems encoded in SNOMED CT®. The adoption of SNOMED CT® will not only improve the quality of clinical documentation, it will also ease the transition to ICD-10-CM.
 
 
3:30–4:15 p.m.
Reflections of 2012 ICD-10 Summit Reactor Panel
 
Members of the 2012 ICD-10 Summit Program Advisory Council will share their observations and key messages gleaned over the course of this year’s ICD-10 Summit.
 
 
4:15 p.m.
Closing Remarks
 

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