Physicians Practice: ICD-10 Testing

Knowing where to begin ICD-10 testing can be a challenge. AAPC’s ICD-10 Specialist Jackie Stack, BSHA, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CFPC, CIMC, CPEDC, CCP-P, recommends making a testing plan now in an article she recently published in Physicians Practice. Ms. Stack points out that significant time and resources will be needed to complete ICD-10 testing.

“Provider practices will want to test with many entities such as payers, practice management systems, billing companies, and clearinghouses,” she says. “There are many types of testing such as quality assurance, user acceptance, integration, regression, performance and end-to-end.”