WEDI's Latest ICD-10 Survey: It's Not Getting Any Prettier

Don't look now but the thought-leading report on ICD-10 readiness determined a digression, at least among survey participants.

“When compared to a similar WEDI survey given in February 2013, the healthcare industry has slipped further behind key ICD-10 compliance milestones suggested in the WEDI/NCHICA timeline,” the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) explained in a prepared statement.

To wit, the survey found that approximately 80 percent of participants will not even have completed their business changes or begun testing prior to 2014. Whereas only 40 percent of payers, formerly seen as the first movers of ICD-10, have yet to conduct an impact assessment. And about half of providers have completed that impact assessment, among the initial steps on recommended timelines.