Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
CMS Proposes One-Year Delay for ICD-10
Don't count on the delay quite yet, coding expert warns. Health providers and practices have been wondering how to make contingency plans ever since HHS Secretary Now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has nailed down its proposed new deadline: Oct. 1, 2014. That's one year later than the October 2013 date currently in effect. CMS announced the proposal on April 9 as part of a rule that also includes other HIPAA-related provisions. "Many provider groups have expressed serious concerns about their ability to meet the Oct. 1, 2013, compliance date," CMS says in a release. "The proposed change in the compliance date for ICD-10 would give providers and other covered entities more time to prepare and fully test their systems to ensure a smooth and coordinated transition to these new code sets." Provider Community Offers Mixed Reviews Some practices are breathing a sigh of relief that they have an extra year to switch to ICD-10. But others say that they are frustrated that their intensive ICD-10 preparation is getting stalled at this late date. The American Medical Association, which was a vocal proponent of an ICD-10 implementation delay, cheered the news. "The American Medical Association and physicians across the nation appreciate that CMS has proposed delaying the ICD-10 implementation date to October 1, 2014," said Don't write the new ICD-10 deadline in pen quite yet, though. "ICD-10-CM is NOT delayed until October 1, 2014," coding expert The billions this delay is expected to cost providers may stymie the delay. "Only time will tell," Selman-Holman says. You have till the first week of May to comment on the CMS proposal, which can be viewed in the
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