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Many EPs (eligible professionals) find themselves trying to prepare for the ICD-10 transition only to find some of the information they’ve been working with wasn’t accurate.

ICD-10 is the elephant in the room that everyone’s actually talking about. And elephant it is. Massive increase in the number of codes to report, additional digits in each code, super bill migration, etc. creates a rather dire picture of things to come.

ICD-10 has come with a fair share of complexities and these complexities are perhaps what’s behind the challenges doctors are facing as they race to comply by the October 1, 2015 deadline.

The ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation deadline for everyone covered by HIPAA is set for October 1, 2015 and it is expected that all HIPAA-covered entities will have completed the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS by this date.

The deadline for ICD-10 implementation has been pushed, again, to October 2015. With a collective sigh of relief, healthcare providers and other involved parties have found some reprieve from the taxing and expensive transition to the new naming and reporting nomenclature characteristic of the successor to the ICD-9 standard.