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Be Prepared For Diagnosis Code Changes, Despite 'Freeze'

Published on Fri Jun 20, 2014

You don’t get to ignore coding revisions for years. Medicare has extended its ICD-9 code freeze through Oct. 1, 2015, but that doesn’t mean your diagnosis coding updating will be on hold until then. Reminder: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has said for Oct. 1, 2014, there will be limited code updates to both the ICD-9 and ICD-10 [...]
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