CMS recently reminded providers that Medicare claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, “will be rejected if they do not contain a valid ICD-10 code.” As CMS explained, “[t]he ...

For one year after implementation of ICD-10, CMS will not deny or audit claims just for specificity, as long as the code is from the appropriate family of ICD-10 codes. Similarly, physicians will not ...

On Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will add another 5,500 codes to the ICD-10 diagnostic library, officials announced in a March 9 meeting. The addition will come exactly one ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has its work cut out in transitioning to ICD-10. As the largest payer and the force driving the new code sets in the United States, CMS has a task at ...

“Road to 10” was created with the help of physicians and is meant to aid small medical practices in jumpstarting their conversion to ICD-10, according to a news release. The tool breaks the transition ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Monday said it will not deny claims under the Part B physician fee schedule based on ICD-10 coding errors, a decision supported by bitter ICD-10 ...

With the clock ticking toward implementation of ICD-10, CMS is letting providers and physicians know that nothing will stop the new codes from becoming the law of the land. CMS Deputy Administrator ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimate that the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will cost the healthcare industry $1.64 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal Health Blog report.

CMS has posted final checklists for ICD-10 end-to-end testing for payers, large providers, small providers, vendor-to-provider testing and vendor-to-payer testing. Last week, the agency announced it ...

The Department of Health and Human Services "expects to release an interim final rule in the near future that will include a new compliance date that would require the use of ICD-10 beginning October ...

One hundred state medical societies and specialty organizations are urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to flesh out contingency plans for the transition to the International ...

ICD-10 doomsday is Oct. 1, 2014, for physicians, hospitals and all other providers, and CMS is ramping up its guidance on how providers should prepare for the transition. CMS released two articles in ...