tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 30

INDUSTRY NOTES: Your Computers May Be Able To Talk To Each Other

House and Senate set to hash out fate of health IT.Stay tuned: You could be facing a tight deadline to adapt to the ICD-10 diagnosis code system, if the House of Representatives gets its way.  The House passed a health information technology (HIT) bill that would require you to start using ICD-10 instead of ICD-9 by October 2010, but the Senate is likely to pass a version which doesn't include that requirement. Also, the Senate bill would require HIT systems to be "interoperable," meaning they can all talk to each other. The House version doesn't have...

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