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
————————————————————– ~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