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ICD-10 Delay Derails More Than IT for Health Insurers
With the delay in ICD-10, many insurers now have to slow down a mammoth IT project and, potentially more disruptive, make adjustments to a whole slew of programs and contracts.
With the delay in ICD-10, many insurers now have to slow down a mammoth IT project and, potentially more disruptive, make adjustments to a whole slew of programs and contracts.
While most payers’ ICD-10 conversions are generally ahead of organizations in other healthcare sectors, this “very late breaking change in the deadline is like throwing a great big wrench into a very complicated process that’s well underway,” as Jordan Battani, CSC’s managing director for emerging health practices, put it.
On an industry-wide level, as America’s Health Insurance Plans sees it, the delay is bound to “cause undue confusion and administrative challenges,” leaving payers and providers in “a stalled transition between two different coding systems.”
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Source: Healthcare Payer News
Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With A. Mark Fendrick, MD, and Michael E. Chernew, PhD
December 2nd 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The December issue features a conversation with AJMC Co–Editors in Chief A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and Michael E. Chernew, PhD, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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