tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 7

ICD-10: Associations Fear ICD-10 Transfer Might Trigger Massive Denials

End-to-end testing reveals potential problems. If you have questions about the ICD-10 transition, you’re not alone. Specialty societies, including the American Medical Association (AMA), are waiting for answers, too. The AMA was among 100 medical groups that wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on March 4 seeking responses to ICD-10 issues that they believe have not been appropriately addressed. Although the groups didn’t go so far as to request a delay to the Oct. 1 implementation date, they did express strong concerns about the transition in the 7-page letter to Acting CMS Administrator...

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