The Medicare program announced yesterday that ICD-10 diagnostic claim codes will get a one-year grace period. The new regulation says that they will not be rejected for payment for the simple reason that the ICD-10 code submitted is not specific…
Seventy-nine percent of the nearly 300 healthcare organizations responding to a KPMG survey reported a successful transition to the new ICD-10 coding system since the switch was implemented on October 1. EHR Intelligence reports that, despite mixed feelings about the…