Law360, New York (April 09, 2012, 5:43 PM ET) -- Health care providers should have another year to switch their billing systems to the updated ICD-10 coding system, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Monday, proposing to delay a switch many doctors have decried as too burdensome.
Doctors, hospitals and others would have until Oct. 1, 2014 to make the switch under a proposed rule released Monday by HHS.
The compliance deadline was originally set for Oct. 1, 2013. In February, two weeks after the American Medical Association asked HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...
HHS Pushes Back Deadline For Switch To New Coding System
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