BREAKING NEWS: CMS finalizes one-year delay for ICD-10; issues final Meaningful Use Rule

Why This Topic Matters

These federal rule changes affect implementation planning, compliance deadlines, and documentation and reporting workflows across healthcare organizations. Readers following coding, reimbursement, and health IT policy need to know which timelines and program requirements were updated.

Article Sections

1. ICD-10 compliance delay and plan identifier standard

   Covers CMS’s final action on the ICD-10 timeline and the related adoption of a national health plan identifier standard.

2. Stage 2 Meaningful Use final rule

   Summarizes the CMS announcement on electronic health record incentive program timing and the broader Stage 2 Meaningful Use rulemaking.

3. Changes to attestation thresholds and measures

   Describes general adjustments to selected attestation requirements and the types of measure updates addressed in the final rule.