New Proposed Deadline for ICD-10 Transition

May 17, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on New Proposed Deadline for ICD-10 Transition

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has finally announced a proposed rule to postpone the compliance date for ICD-10 by one year to October 1, 2014.

Information Week Healthcare brought this news to our attention in their article, “Feds Propose One-Year ICD-10 Delay.” The compliance deadline for ICD-10 had been set for October 1, 2013, but after pressure from some health industry groups, HHS disclosed it was evaluating extending the deadline for ICD-10. However, at that time HHS did not announce how long the extension would be. Some wondered if the delay would be permanent, but this announcement nixes that.

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. Access Innovations’ M.A.I. machine-assisted indexing system and specialists in complex coding, tagging, and indexing can minimize the risk of coding errors with proper training and quality assurance. Many widely used tagging systems lack a user-friendly interface and may not implement a rigorous ANSI-compliant coding subsystem. Access Innovations’ solutions are ANSI-compliant and implement state-of-the-art technology to speed tagging and reduce errors.

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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.