New ICD-10 Implementation Date Set for October 2015 May 2, 2014 News, Practice Management ICD-10, ICD-10 implementatoin 0 CMS has announced the new implementation date for the ICD-10 family of diagnostic and procedural codes to be October 1, 2015. The previous compliance deadline was October 1, 2014, but Congress delayed that in passing another temporary “doc fix” measure. “On April 1, 2014, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) (Pub. L. No. 113-93) was enacted, which said that the secretary may not adopt ICD-10 prior to October 1, 2015,” the CMS statement said. "Accordingly, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expects to release an interim final rule in the near future that will include a new compliance date that would require the use of ICD-10 beginning Oct. 1, 2015. The rule will also require HIPAA-covered entities to continue to use ICD-9-CM through September 30, 2015." Click here to view the 1,600-page proposed rule including the new ICD-10 implementation deadline. Comments are closed.
