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Congress Votes to Delay ICD-10

You have another year before you’ll have to implement the Dx coding system. Rumors about CMS’s insistence that ICD-10 would not be delayed have apparently been greatly exaggerated. Much to the chagrin of CMS and the rest of the medical community, you will not have to implement the ICD-10 program until 2015 at the earliest. On March 27 Congress introduced [...]
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