tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 5

ICD-10 Delay: Take At Least 1 More Year to Overhaul Dx Coding

Avoid procrastination trap. You won’t have to meet the Oct. 1, 2014 implementation deadline for ICD-10 after all. That’s because, as part of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, a single sentence change everything: “The Secretary of Health and Human Services may not, prior to October 1, 2015, adopt ICD–10 code sets as the standard for code sets.”  What this means for your general surgery group: You have at least one more year to get ready to implement ICD-10. Use it well. Check Out Stakeholder Response You may be dancing in...

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