CMS has developed an online ICD-10 implementation guide and released it at Health IT Week Sept. 16 to 20. The tool includes an overview of the new code set and transitional guidance for practices of ...

In roughly one year, Oct. 1, 2014, the U.S. healthcare system will finally make the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10, and CMS has created a new online ICD-10 implementation guide to help providers ...

CMS extensively covers ICD-10 implementation testing scenarios in its “ICD-10 Implementation Guide for Small and Medium Practices,” according to an ICD-10 Watch report. Prior to testing, study your ...

American Medical Association President and CEO James L. Madara, MD, has urged HHS to reconsider making physicians convert to ICD-10. In a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this month, Dr.

Providers looking to learn more about ICD-10 and its impending transition are invited to attend the ICD-10 Basics webinar at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Aug. 22. The event is hosted by the Centers for Medicare & ...

With ICD-10 about a month away, healthcare providers say 'bring it on' Less than six weeks from an oft-delayed deadline, health systems, hospitals, practices and payers finally seem ready.

Some physicians may end up paying nearly three times more for ICD-10 implementation than had been predicted just five years ago, according to a new report from the American Medical Association. The ...

What hasn't been said about the "surprise" decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to extend the existing Oct. 10, 2013, ICD-10 implementation deadline? Well how about this: Despite ...

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced Thursday that it is conducting its latest online ICD-10 industry progress survey. The survey has a closing date of Feb. 20. According to ...

With the flip of the calendar to 2012, the ICD-10 implementation deadline of Oct. 1, 2013, suddenly appears very closer. To be sure, the wheels are turning for the conversion of the current Medicare ...

Respondents represented commercial health insurers and Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, health-care providers, government health-care officials and other health-care industry organizations. Half said ...