An issue involving home health claims, discovered during ICD-10’s first-ever end-to-end testing week, has been addressed.
 
The problem had involved several claims with dates that spanned ICD-10’s Oct. 1 implementation date being submitted correctly but not being processed correctly due to an issue on CMS’ end (HHL 3/9/16). The claims contained ICD-10 codes but were returned to the submitter, CMS announced Feb. 25.
 
During an end-to-end testing briefing at the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting on March 18, CMS announced that the home health issue had been addressed.
 
Fewer than 10 test claims were affected during the Jan. 26-30 testing week. CMS had previously said that testers would have an opportunity to re-submit these claims during the next testing week, April 27-May 1.
 
CMS has not said how many agencies participated in end-to-end testing or how successful the home health industry was in testing.
 
The federal Medicare agency also did not did it say how many home health claims were submitted or how many agencies were affected by the issue.