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ICD-10 Delay:

Take At Least 1 More Year to Overhaul Dx Coding

Published on Thu Apr 17, 2014

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.”  [...]
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