ICD-10: CMS Keeps Coding Community on Tenterhooks with ICD-10 Questions
Reps say IPPS and implementation of ICD-10 unrelated.
You’re not alone if you have questions about the ICD-10 delay. You have plenty of company waiting for answers from CMS, as was evident during CMS’s May 13 Open Door Forum.
“On April 1, 2014, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 was enacted, and it says that the secretary may not adopt ICD-10 prior to Oct. 1, 2015,” said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Chris Ritter during the call. “Accordingly, the US Department of Health and Human Services expects to release...
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