AMA Wire®: One-year countdown to ICD-10 begins: Start transition now #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT

AMA Wire®: One-year countdown to ICD-10 begins: Start transition now

One-year countdown to ICD-10 begins: Start transition now

10/1/2014, 2:33 PM

With just a year left to transition to the ICD-10 code set, practice management experts advise physicians to begin preparing for implementation by working with software vendors and testing their systems, if they haven’t already. See what physicians can use to make the switch to this costly code set a bit easier.

Originally scheduled for implementation in 2014, a final rule issued in August gave physicians an extra year to prepare for implementation of the costly code set, developed by the World Health Organization and adapted for use in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). 

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