Industry Note:
CMS Wants Contractors To Add ICD-10 Codes To NCDs
Published on Fri Feb 01, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is urging contractors to add ICD-10 codes to National Coverage Determinations. Ever since rumblings of ICD-10 first began, providers have wondered when NCDs would replace applicable ICD-9 codes with the corresponding ICD-10 codes — and it appears that time has come. On Jan. 18, CMS instructed contractors to start the process of creating [...]