Pay-per-view: Will hospitals take the new ICD-10 implementation date seriously?
APCs Insider, July 11, 2014
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to APCs Insider!
After a month of silence following the Congress-imposed delay of ICD-10 in its Medicare payment patch bill, CMS finally revealed its plan to implement the code set October 1, 2015, in a forthcoming final rule.
As of press time, we're still waiting for the final rule to be released. The question facing hospitals is, even when CMS releases a new date, should it be taken seriously, given Congress can easily step in again?
Continue reading “Will hospitals take the new ICD-10 implementation date seriously?” on HCPro’s website. Subscribers to Briefings on APCs have free access to this article in the July issue.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to APCs Insider!
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Math can be tricky: TJC corrects ABHR storage requirement
- Air control equals infection control
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Residency coordinators’ responsibilities
- The consequences of an incomplete medical record
- Five ways to safeguard your patients' valuables
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Study: Shorter shifts reduces residents’ attentional failures
- E-mailed
-
- OSHA HazCom updates include labeling, SDS requirements
- Air control equals infection control
- Plan of Care Supports Documentation of Homebound Status
- Patient classification systems to coordinate patient care
- Nursing's growing role
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Note from the instructor: CMS clarifies billing guidelines on proper billing for drugs in a single-dose or single-use vial, including billing for discarded drugs
- Fracture coding in ICD-10-CM requires greater specificity
- Follow these tips to properly report bladder catheter codes
- Five ways to safeguard your patients' valuables
- Searched