New RARC Alerts Providers about Upcoming Transition to ICD-10

By mid-April, providers will begin seeing a new Remittance Advice Remark Code (RARC) N742 on their Remittance Advices (RAs), “Alert: This claim was processed based on one or more ICD-9 codes. The transition to ICD-10 is required by October 1, 2015, for health care providers, health plans, and clearinghouses. Medicare Administrative Contractors will start using the new RARC in April. Since RARCs are an industry standard, the new RARC has been available for other health plans to use since March 1, 2015.