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Move ICD-10 Conversion Down A Notch On Your Priority List

Published on Fri Feb 24, 2012

ICD-10 deadline will be postponed -- but for how long? Just three months ago, Centers for Medi-care & Medicaid Services representatives firmly told providers that the ICD-10 implementation date would not be pushed back beyond Oct. 1, 2013 -- but what a difference a few months makes. The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Feb. 16 that the ICD-10 implementation date will indeed be postponed. The agency stated that it "will initiate a process to postpone the date by which certain health care entities have to comply with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis and procedure codes (ICD-10)." "ICD-10 codes are important to many positive improvements in our health care system," says HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a statement. 'We have heard from many in the provider community who have concerns about the administrative burdens they face in the years ahead," Sebelius says. "We are committing to work with [...]
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