Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposes to Delay ICD-10 Implementation to October 1, 2014
CMS announced today, April 9, 2012, as part of a larger proposed rule related to administration simplification provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), that it will delay the ICD-10 compliance date by one year to October 1, 2014. As we reported previously, the agency had agreed to delay the compliance date for the new procedure codes, but had not specified the new date until now. In total, CMS expects the one-year compliance delay to cost the health system between $1 billion and $6.5 billion, but it is taking comments on that assumption.
Key physician groups, including ASCRS and the AMA, pressed CMS to postpone the
October 1, 2013 deadline for conversion of billing codes from ICD-9 to ICD-10.
We will keep you updated as the proposal is finalized.
