Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Follow The Map To These New GEMs
Published on Fri Aug 19, 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted the General Equivalency Mappings (GEMs) for the ICD-10 codes that will take effect Oct. 1. Access them at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2017-ICD-10-CM-and-GEMs.html.
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