tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 4

ICD-10 Delay: Use Extra Time For Thorough Prep for ICD-10, Experts Advise

Tip: Keep focusing on clinical documentation.  If you weren’t quite sure whether your facility would be ready for ICD-10 implementation, you can breathe a little easier. Thanks to actions by Congress and President Obama in late March and early April, you’ll have at least one more year to prepare for the new diagnosis system. Background: Congress introduced the bill (the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014) in a move designed to avoid the 24 percent pay cut physicians were due to face on April 1, 2014. But a small portion of the bill &ndash...

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