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Docs Get An ICD-10 Breather -- But You Don't

Published on Fri Jul 17, 2015

Here’s another reason to feel like second-class citizens under Medicare. Beleaguered home care and hospice providers gearing up for the ICD-10 transition in October could use a little leniency when the implementation date hits. They are out of luck — but physicians are a different story. If physicians use the wrong ICD-10 code within the first year after Oct. 1, [...]
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