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ICD-10 Transition:

Home Health Providers Protest Physicians' Sweetheart Deal

Published on Tue Sep 01, 2015

Home care and hospice providers tell CMS they deserve more leniency. In guidance posted last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said that if physicians use the wrong ICD-10 code within the first year after Oct. 1, their claims will still be processed and paid, as long as they use an ICD-10 code from the correct code [...]
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