ICD-10:
Medicare's 'Code Family' Clemency Has Ended
Published on Tue Oct 25, 2016
Denials could skyrocket if your specificity isn’t up to scratch. So you know CMS and the CDC released the final ICD-10-CM 2017 addenda, which went into effect Oct. 1, 2016. But did you remember that this is also the end of the CMS “grace period” for ICD-10, which prevents MACs from denying claims based on ICD-10 specificity, as long as [...]
