Monthly Archives: August 2015

CMS and AMA recently developed guidance on new ICD-10 flexibility for physicians during the first year of compliance. Now, at the request of stakeholders who found errors, CMS has substantially changed the guidance in Questions 3 and 5. >Click here to read full article

CMS has said it will not deny or audit claims just for specificity for one year after implementation of ICD-10 as long as the code is from the appropriate family of ICD-10 codes. But it has not defined what a family of codes is. This article originally appeared in ICD-10 Trainer Remember those friends and