tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2014 Issue 17

ICD-10: CMS Clarifies Some Rules Surrounding Usage of ICD-10 Codes

Review guidelines on how to code when the diagnosis isn’t definite. Implementation of ICD-10 may have been deferred to October 2015, but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stepped up guidance to help you prepare for the new diagnosis coding system. Recently the agency released a transmittal that should help you understand how you’ll report these codes when insurers start requiring them next year. CMS issued Transmittal 3020 on Aug. 8, and it announces revisions to the official ICD-10 Coding Guidelines which put them more in line with the current ICD-9 rules. For example...

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