During an ICD-10 testing week in March, CMS accepted 89 percent of the more than 127,000 test ICD-10 claims sent to the agency's Medicare fee-for-service system. All testers received an acknowledgement of the status of their claims, and no issues were identified with the claims system.
The 2,600 participants in the testing week included providers, suppliers billing companies and clearinghouses, and together represent approximately 5 percent of all the organizations that will submit ICD-10 claims to CMS.
Currently, claim acceptance rates for the Medicare fee-for-service systems average between 95 and 98 percent. According to a CMS press release, some of the claims contained intentional errors as to negative-test the system, and some of the rejected claims did not have the proper qualifier code.
CMS invites providers and others to submit test claims at anytime, though advises waiting until after a scheduled system upgrade on Oct. 6, 2014.
CMS will conduct end-to-end ICD-10 testing in 2015.
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