Author Archives: Keddrick Stuart

By Keddrick Stuart
| on April 11, 2012

ICD-10 Likely Delayed with Good News Buried in the Announcement

The long expected news of a delay to the implementation date for ICD-10 became a little more official this week.  HHS has formally announced a proposed rule change that would effectively slip the effective date from Oct. 1, 2013 to Oct 1, 2014. ICD-10 promises to improve electronic communication by adding specificity to both diagnosis codes and CPT codes. The codes are fundamentally different because they carry within the code additional information that characterizes anatomic

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By Keddrick Stuart
| on November 19, 2011

CMS delays 5010 enforcement, but we are ready

You may have heard that CMS has announced a 90 day period of “enforcement discretion” for compliance with the new HIPAA Transaction standards.   Here is a link to the announcement: CMS 5010 Statement Their rationale for the delay is, “…testing between some covered entities and their trading partners has not yet reached a threshold whereby a majority of covered entities would be able to be in compliance by Sunday, January 1, 2012.” What does

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