ICD-10 Gathers Supporting Platforms from DST Health Solutions

Care-Management Suite Supports ICD-10 Compliance, Three Myths About ICD-10
With the challenges of ICD-10 code set in mind, DST Health Solutions recently released its PowerSTEPP, PowerMHC, PowerMHS, and AMISYS Advance core administration platforms—all designed to support ICD-10 compliance, including both ICD-9 and ICD-10 processing, the new focus and controversial area of concern for providers of medical coding online training and medical coding online courses.

"Our team has really gone the extra mile to ensure that our systems support ICD-10 compliance and remain flexible," noted Steve Sabino, DST Health Solutions president. "Our system configuration allows clients to effectively manage their operations based on their business needs and market demands, rather than on the limitations of their claims processing systems."

DST Health Solutions offers a suite of clinical and administrative solutions in the industry that is recognized in the industry as among the most comprehensive. DST's integrated care management suite is cross-core platform, able to seamlessly integrate with any claims administrative system.

According to DST Health Solutions, its integrated care management suite touts the following advantages for its users:

It lessens potential ICD-10 problems by scrupulously maintaining all the customer’s current configuration edits. It makes available standardized claims and benefits edits to support ICD-9 and ICD-10 code sets. It supports new financial and clinical reimbursement models that are expected to arise with the introduction of date-parameter-driven ICD-9 and ICD-10.

Meanwhile, despite the one-year deferment of the ICD-10 implementation to October 1, 2014, the new code set is for all intents and purposes the quasi-reality now in the medical sector and in the medical coding community.  Some myths, however, are associated with ICD-10 codes that might derail some users and even providers of medical coding online training and medical coding online courses

Myth 1: Users can procrastinate a little bit more before adopting ICD-10 codes because the ICD-10 training can take only a couple of weeks.

Reality: It is impossible for anyone, medical facility or medical practice, to train its employees on the ICD-10 coding system in such a very short duration. ICD-10 has some 155,000 codes in all.

Myth 2: Because ICD-10 involves of tens of thousands of new codes, it is nearly impossible to go for ICD-10 implementation.

Reality: True, ICD-10 consists of a huge number of old and new codes and it is more extensive than ICD-9, but it is implementable, not the least because it holds big benefits for medical practitioners. Among these are: ICD-10 is more specific, more accurate, and better structured than ICD-9; ICD-10 makes tracking down codes a lot easier and faster than ICD-9.

Myth 3: ICD-10 was initiated way back in 1993, hence many codes are already out-of-date.


Reality: Wrong. ICD-10 was designed to take in incremental changes. In fact, there already have been several revisions in codes since 1993 to accommodate developments in the field. These incremental changes will continue until the healthcare community decides to freeze the codes.