tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 16

ICD-10: Enjoy 4 New Provisions That Will Greatly Ease Your Transition to ICD-10

One-year grace period is good, but two years would be better, some say. Errors in your diagnosis coding could throw your billing completely out of whack — and the Oct. 1 implementation of ICD-10 practically guarantees at least some coding mistakes by all providers. But the good news is Part B providers won’t suffer claim denials for ICD-10 blunders, as long as you’ve come close enough to the right code. On July 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) announced four provisions that aim to ease healthcare providers’ burdens...

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