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Clearing the Air on the ICD-10 Transition

Clearing the Air on the ICD-10 Transition

By Hagland, Mark

Proquest LLC

AHIMA's Sue Bowman shares her perspectives on the current moment in the Journey towards the ICD-10 transition by mark haoland

When, this March, the U.S. Congress inserted a yearlong delay in the mandate for the transition from the ICD-9 coding system to the ICD-10 coding system fromOct. 1, 2014, to at least Oct. 1,2015, as part of a broader bill creating a temporary "SGR fix" (a delay in Medicare physician payment cuts under the program's sustainable growth formula), it threw ICD10 planning into disarray across the U.S. healthcare system.

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