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There’s a Code for That: Counting Down to ICD-10 and a Poem to Help You Remember!

Editor’s Note:  We originally published this article to our Health Law Update Blog prior to Congress extending the ICD-10 compliance deadline.  Therefore, we have revised our language to indicate that changes to coding are coming in the fall 2015, not 2014. ————————————————————– ~We wrote down this poem, To help you recall, That changes are coming … Continue Reading

There’s a Code for That: Counting Down to ICD-10 and a Poem to Help You Remember!

————————————————————– ~We wrote down this poem, To help you recall, That changes are coming To coding this fall.~ ————————————————————– On October 1, 2014, all HIPAA-covered persons and entities must be compliant with the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification/Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS, respectively).  Despite numerous extensions of this compliance date (which was … Continue Reading
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