Coalition Of Insurers, Doctors Seek Delay Of New Diagnosis Code Set
Publication Date: May 18, 2006
Advisen -- Healthcare
Source: Inside CMS
"Insurers and physicians, normally strange bedfellows, are teaming up against a provision in a House bill that would require the adoption of a massive new diagnosis coding set by Oct. 1, 2009. The new ICD-10 diagnosis coding set contains 120,000 individual, seven-digit codes. Doctors currently report only 13,000 codes, under the ICD-9 code set..."
Advisen -- Healthcare
Source: Inside CMS
"Insurers and physicians, normally strange bedfellows, are teaming up against a provision in a House bill that would require the adoption of a massive new diagnosis coding set by Oct. 1, 2009. The new ICD-10 diagnosis coding set contains 120,000 individual, seven-digit codes. Doctors currently report only 13,000 codes, under the ICD-9 code set..."
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