CMS (Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services) has announced that it is extending its partial ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 code freeze to reflect enactment of legislation (the Protecting Access to Medicare…
"There are no more delays and the system will go live Oct. 1. Let's face it guys, we've delayed it several times, and it's time to move on." — CMS…
Let's assume you're relieved that ICD-10 implementation has been extended a year because you haven't done anything about it yet. Improve ICD-9 coding Nope. That isn't a typo. By improving…
In the conference room of a D.C.-area hotel, Rob Gibran rose from one of many round tables, waited in line, stepped up to a mic, and called for an impromptu…
A new ICD-10 deadline is almost upon the healthcare industry. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said late Thursday it expects the Department of Health and Human Services to…
“I find it comical that credibility and date are in the same sentence,” Sid Hebert said, “since we’re going for our fourth” ICD-10 compliance deadline. Hebert, Humana’s ICD-10 program manager,…
A delay in requiring all providers of medical care to use a new health-records and billing system to describe treatments is giving small medical offices major headaches. Billing is a…
Like medical coders, billers, physicians, and others in practices nationwide, CMS was both surprised and disappointed that Congress delayed ICD-10 implementation, but it remains committed to the conversion and plans…
Much has been written about the pro’s and con’s of the ICD-10 delay. To date, CMS has yet to issue the new deadline, or provide guidelines for how organizations are…
Many of the complexities of medicine are distilled down to a vocabulary of diagnostic codes, called the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which are used by doctors, insurers, and hospitals.…
Health Revenue Assurance Holdings Inc. (otcqb:HRAA) ("HRAA") a leading provider of revenue integrity solutions for healthcare provider organizations, announced its response to the one year compliance deadline delay for converting…
It's understandable if healthcare providers consider ICD-10 implementation a lost cause. The latest delay shows how easy it is to derail a major healthcare policy initiative. So why bother? Terrance…
For the last so many decades, we’ve been using ICD-9. ICD-9, which stands for International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition is the system of codes used to classify every disease…
Congress's move to delay by at least a year the switch to ICD-10 has thrown a monkey wrench into the many providers' plans for moving to the new coding system.…
Due to the passing of the SGR law delaying ICD-10 implementation until Oct 1, 2015, AHIMA has revised it's testing criteria and dates. AAPC has not issued any statements regarding…
The US Senate voted Monday to approve a one-year temporary legislative patch to avoid looming 24% cuts to physician Medicare payments. The measure also delays the ICD-10 billing codes compliance…