Delay or Not?

May 24, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Delay or Not?

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is once again speaking against the ICD-10 deadline delay. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) disagrees. It calls the one-year delay an appropriate “middle ground” for all stakeholders while urging HHS to remain committed to the new code sets.

This interesting news was brought to our attention by Government Health IT in their article, “CHIME, AHIMA stances on ICD-10 delay.” Whatever the decisions, the new ICD-10 coding classification system will have five times the number of codes to use for billing reimbursement than the current ICD-9 does.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.