There was a story yesterday about the administration’s rush to publish final rules. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27312289/ ... While this is an Interior Department rule, I would guess that HHS is looking to get out the final rules on ICD-10 and 5010/D.0 before the end of the year.
The major concern with this is that they will not adequately address public comments, and will rush out something that is unworkable. Hopefully, our friends in Baltimore and Washington will do their best to create a workable solution.
You can see the public comments on the NPRMs at http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=CMS-2008-0101 for the X12/NCPCP rule and http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=CMS-2008-0096 for the ICD-10 rule.
Let’s watch and see what CMS does.
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Stanley, I would think that CMS is frustrated by the long time frames our industry requires to do any changes. It appears that CMS will be ready to migrate to ICD-10-CM and the 5010 within the time frame of the proposed rule, which invites them to mutter..."if we can do it, why can't others?" Much of the push back is legitimate if you accept the premise that it is acceptable for the industry to continue to use out dated systems that take enormous effort to change. We continue to build upon a broken sysetm and wonder why everything we try ulitmately fails....
Good points, except that CMS has already been planning for 5010 and ICD-10 for over a year. Unfortunately, we can't get other folks to move until a final rule is in place. How can we overcome that?
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