BC Advantage - 2014 Issue 6

Curtain Rings Down on October 2014 ICD-10 Deadline

By: Chuck BuckWith the pretense of decorum and respectability, members of the second session of the 113th Congress milled about the U.S. House of Representatives floor the Thursday evening before last while the Clerk asked for a voice vote on a recommendation to extend the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) for another year. Buried in what had become the 17th "doc fix" to prevent a mandated 24-percent reduction to reimbursement to physicians treating Medicare beneficiaries - a patch to fix the 1997 Balanced Budget Act - was language to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing...

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