ICD-10

Government mandates, such as the conversion to ICD-10, should be viewed as a strategic advantage that will produce favorable results if the approach is well-planned.  

Beacon Partners has the expertise to leverage the ICD-10 implementation for your organization in a way that  prioritizes clinical process improvements to ensure the strategic advantages in ICD-10 are realized. The plan to attain this strategic advantage will be mapped after: properly assessing people, business processes and technology; creating a sense of urgency to drive this change; and recognizing the organization’s educational training needs and process improvements.

What can Beacon Partners do for you?

• Identify the organizational components that will be impacted and gauge transition readiness of each component
• Provide an inventory of your systems that will be affected by the change, working with vendors and business partners to align the transition and system testing
• Develop a strong project plan that assesses your staff and provides training opportunities

With our enterprise-wide project plan, which includes timeliness, training and certification processes, you can count on a successful ICD-10 implementation.

5010

The January 1, 2012 mandate requiring providers to migrate their HIPAA transaction code sets to the new 5010 format has profound implications regarding your cash flow and your ICD-10 coding readiness. The changes you need to make to achieve compliance are significant and involve much more than just IT.

A successful conversion offers significant potential for revenue cycle process improvements. Beacon Partners possesses the skill set to guide you through the various aspects of the 5010 format conversion, identifying who at your organization must be involved, the various steps in the 5010 timetable, necessary changes to specific transaction types and Level I and Level II testing setup considerations.  

What can Beacon Partners do for you?

• Provide an overall assessment of your organization’s readiness for the conversion to 5010
• Develop a comprehensive gap analysis and a plan for concurrent transaction coding

Our comprehensive 5010 gap analysis and roadmap will guide you toward a successful conversion. With our concurrent 4010A1 and 5010 transaction coding plans, you will also be prepared should some of your trading partners not meet the 5010 conversion date.

HIE Planning

Your ability to exchange information successfully with the entire healthcare community is at the core of your organization’s enterprise strategy. We’ll advise you on how to create an EHR alignment strategy that encompasses both primary care and specialists in the community, including governance structures, Stark requirements and interoperability planning.  

What can Beacon Partners do for you?

• Develop and articulate an HIE strategy
• Achieve a sustainable funding model for the HIE
• Identify the appropriate technology base for your specific environment
• Involve community physicians in establishing HIE capabilities and priorities
• Prepare you for participation in regional and national health data exchange initiatives
• Assess your community’s healthcare systems’ and providers’ readiness for an HIE initiative

You’ll have a clear picture of your community’s HIE readiness, a solid plan for developing a community or regional HIE, and a detailed, sustainable funding model specific to your community.