Home Health & Hospice Week
Watch For Coding Conversion Details Next Spring
Wondering which ICD-10 codes will be linked to LCDs? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has pledged to get you that information by April.
"All ICD-10 local coverage decisions (LCDs) and associated ICD-10 articles will be published on the Medicare Coverage Database no later than April 10, 2014," CMS says in MLN Matters article MM8348. "All other LCDs and articles (i.e., those LCDs and articles that do not contain ICD-10 information, or articles not attached to an LCD) will be published no later than Sept. 4, 2014."
Since the ICD-10 implementation date is Oct. 1, 2014, this should give you almost six months to nail down the LCD transition. The MLN Matters article is at www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNMattersArticles/Downloads/MM8348.pdf.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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