November 19, 2014
Our first Acknowledgement Testing week is here. Are you testing?
November 17 through 21, 2014
SUBJECT: International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) Testing – Acknowledgement Testing with Providers
- GENERAL INFORMATION
- Background: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is in the process of implementing International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. All covered entities must be fully compliant on October 1, 2015.
The concept of trading partner testing was originally designed to validate the trading partners' ability to meet technical compliance and performance processing standards during the HIPAA 5010 implementation. While submitters may acknowledgement test ICD-10 claims at any time through implementation, the ICD-10 testing weeks have been created to generate awareness and interest, and to instill confidence in in the provider community that CMS and the MACs are ready and prepared for the ICD-10 implementation.
These testing weeks will allow trading partners access to MACs and CEDI for testing with real-time help desk support.
The event will be conducted virtually and will be posted on each MAC's and the CEDI Web site as well as CMS' Web site.
- Policy:
Contractors shall promote three National ICD-10 Testing Awareness Weeks.
- Test claims with ICD-10 codes must be submitted with current dates of service since testing does not support future dates of service.
- Claims will be subject to existing NPI validation edits.
- Test claims will be subject to all existing EDI front-end edits including Submitter authentication and NPI validation.
- Test claims will receive the 277CA or 999 acknowledgement as appropriate, to confirm that the claim was accepted or rejected by Medicare.
- Testing will not confirm claim payment or produce a remittance advice.
- MACs and CEDI will be staffed to handle increased call volume during this week.
- Background: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is in the process of implementing International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. All covered entities must be fully compliant on October 1, 2015.
Submit your test claims today!!

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