Friday, December 24, 2010

ICD-10 Ramps Up

Year in Review: ICD-10 Ramps Up

By Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today
Published: December 23, 2010
As part of the Year in Review series, MedPage Todayreporters are revisiting major news stories and following up with an analysis of the impact of the original report, as well as subsequent news generated by the initial publication. Here's what's happened on the ICD-10 front since we published the first 2010 piece on the topic.
Earlier this year, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) declared that Oct. 1, 2013 would be the firm implementation date for ICD-10, the newest iteration of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding system used on medical claim forms.
The question then became how to handle the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10, especially when it came to updating each set of codes during the transition./.../

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