“Healthcare facilities are right to be concerned about the path to ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation: Healthcare experts emphasize that providers have a lot of work to do to meet documentation requirements, adapt their software to the new codes and prepare for decreased billing productivity. CMS will require all health professionals and facilities to transition to ICD-10 by Oct. 1, 2013, when the current system will be expanded to add approximately 55,000 new codes.”
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Rachel Fields, Becker’s ASC Review, 7 December 2011
