Department of Health and Human Services recently announced it will delay the Oct. 1, 2013, compliance date for transitioning to the ICD-10 procedural and diagnostic coding set, according to an HHS ...

“We'll get you to ICD-10,” athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush said in a media release, “or you don't have to pay for it.” More specifically, athenahealth explained that “all new clients” who sign on by ...

ICD-10 implementation and compliance issues associated with the HITECH Act are on the minds of medical billing companies, according to a speaker at the 2009 Fall National Conference of the Healthcare ...

Despite opposition, notably from the American Medical Association, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are firmly standing behind the Oct. 1 deadline for ICD-10 implementation, according to ...

Coding reviews and audits for ICD-10 continue to be of importance, especially as new codes continue to be added, Victoria M. Hernandez, an auditor, writes at ICD10 Monitor. It's important, she notes, ...

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Last August, HHS issued a final rule that officially changed the ICD-10 compliance date for all hospitals and healthcare providers to Oct. 1, 2014, and providers may not have been the only group ...

Healthcare administrators are “terrified” as the 2013 ICD-10 implementation date looms closer, according to a Government Health IT report. Nearly one decade before the compliance deadline, the Medical ...

Even though the deadline for ICD-10 implementation is just a year away, many healthcare entities report not being ready. The freshest evidence: A survey released in September 2014 by the College of ...

"It is clear there is still a lot of work to do to prepare for ICD-10, regardless of whether an extension to the compliance date is granted," WEDI reported in the letter." Of particular interest is ...

We finally have a new ICD-10 implementation deadline. After all the letters, changing the 2013 to 2014 seems pretty mundane. Is just an extra 12 months going to make a difference? Dave Biel, principal ...