ICD-10 Implementation Date - Delay to 2014, 2015, or Beyond?  

Category: ICD-10

Please note: Friday, August 24, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the final rule that makes the proposed one-year delay-from Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014-final for the implementation of ICD-10.  

It seemed not so long ago we in the healthcare industry had the date ingrained into our brains -October 1, 2013 was THE day.  No delays, no exceptions!  We've been living and planning for this implementation date since it was first announced in January 2009.  For the better part of three years, many organizations have done significant amounts of preparatory work and invested many dollars to ensure their facility and its employees are steadily readying themselves for the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS.  

But, in February 2012, all gears came to a screeching halt when the acting CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner a...