OrionNet Systems deployed the ICD-10 updates to their ThinkHealth Practice Management software on Thursday and Friday of this week, August 27-28, 2015. The company’s members will have access to these updates a month before the October 1^st transition has to take place.

In the October 1^st transition, the codes used to submit to Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and virtually all other insurers will change to ICD-10. Every diagnostic code currently used by therapists will become instantly obsolete.  Patient charges submitted after October 1 with the outdated ICD-9 codes will be returned unpaid. Therapists will either adapt to the new coding system or not receive payment.

“The updates we’ve deployed to ThinkHealth are designed to make this transition seamless but we still want to give everyone enough time to be comfortable with the changes,” said Clyde Wafford, president of OrionNet Systems. “If it’s not right for our members, it’s not right for our software.”

To better serve their members, the company also held ICD-10 training for their members to go over how the transition will affect them and the best methods to handle billing issues.

For agencies starting the process from scratch, try these questions on all vendors:

• Will your products be ready for ICD-10 compliance?
• How does your product simplify my organization's transition to ICD-10?
• How does the functionality offered by your system compare with my current system?

The OrionNet Systems’ support team will be contacting each and every one of their member agencies to make sure they know how to fix and reconcile their ICD-9 to ICD-10 just in case.

“This is a very tricky update,” said Clyde Wafford. “But I know our members will bear with us because they know we will help them get ready for October 1^st. They don’t have to worry. It’s that simple.”

About OrionNet Systems

OrionNet is an Oklahoma small business founded in 2001. OrionNet has designed, developed and supported applications created both for the client-server and web environments, as well as developing, marketing and supporting a commercial application for the counseling centers industry.

Visit the OrionNet Systems’ website, www.iorion.com, or their social media pages, https://twitter.com/ThinkHealth & https://www.facebook.com/pages/OrionNet-Systems/139352156150090 for more information.

About Medicaid.gov

Medicaid.gov is a federal government managed website by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

http://www.medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-Program-Information/By-Topics/Data-and-Systems/ICD-Coding/ICD-10-Changes-from-ICD-9.html

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