tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2012 Issue 8

ICD-10 Update: CMS Proposes One-Year Delay for ICD-10

Don't count on the delay quite yet, coding expert warns. Health providers and practices have been wondering how to make contingency plans ever since HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on Feb. 16 that the government would be delaying the deadline for ICD-10 diagnosis coding, but failed to designate a new implementation date. Now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has nailed down its proposed new deadline: Oct. 1, 2014. That's one year later than the October 2013 date currently in effect. CMS announced the proposal on April 9 as part of a rule that also includes other...

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