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tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 9

ICD-10 Update: You Might Avoid Claims Denials in the Implementation Year

Get to the right code family. You won’t be able to keep using ICD-9 beginning October 1, but at least the pressure is off for losing pay if you make some ICD-10 mistakes right out of the blocks. That’s because CMS has stated that if you can at least list an ICD-10 code from the right “family,” your Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) will pay your claims for the first calendar year following the Oct. 1, 2015 implementation date. In a compromise hammered out between the AMA — which wanted to delay ICD-10 implementation — and...

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