The cutoff for switching from the ICD-9 medical coding system to ICD-10 will remain Oct. 1, 2014, according to Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for healthcare IT, who delivered the keynote address June 17 at the HIMSS Media ICD-10 Forum in National Harbor, Md.
“There are no plans for any more extensions,” he told attendees, repeating it twice, for emphasis.
The current extension, from Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014, was partly due to…
