ICD-10: Do They Mean It This Time? » athenahealth CloudView Blog
by DAN HALEY, VP OF GOVERNMENT AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS
I’m always asked the same ICD-10 questions: Is the October 2015 deadline real this time? Are the feds going to punt again? They aren’t ever going to pull the trigger on ICD-10, right?
All reasonable questions, especially after the October 2014 deadline — supposedly a hard-and-fast date — was unceremoniously kicked down the road by a year.
When it comes to ICD-10, providers fall generally into two categories: Those who actually invested time and money to be ready for October 2014, and, having been burnt once badly, are leery of approaching the ICD-10 stove again. Then there are providers who feel validated that they had correctly bet the feds would blink — and may be more comfortable making that bet again next year.
The policy meteorologists uniformly predicted stormy weather. Yet a whole lot of people went outside without an umbrella and ended up enjoying a beautiful, sunny day. Why shouldn’t the same scenario play out again in 2015?
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