MRA Alerts and Updates: ICD-9

The final updates to ICD-9-CM codes will take effect on October 1, 2013. These updates will be in effect until the ICD-10 transition takes place on October 1, 2014. You can find the last official ICD-9-CM code titles, both full and abbreviated, posted on the CMS website.

“For those of us who have been maintaining ICD-9-CM codes since the code set’s implementation in 1979, this final ICD-9-CM code update is a historic occasion,” said Pat Brooks of the CMS Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group. “We look forward to the implementation and maintenance of ICD-10 in 2014.”

http://ehrintelligence.com/2013/08/01/cms-last-icd-9-update-before-icd-10-compliance-date/

Friday, July 26, 2013

Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Quarterly Listing of Program Issuances—April Through June 2013

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS–9080–N]

Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Quarterly Listing of Program Issuances—April Through June 2013
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This quarterly notice lists CMS manual instructions, substantive and interpretive regulations, and other Federal Register notices that were published from April through June 2013, relating to the Medicare and Medicaid programs and other programs administered by CMS.

Read more: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-07-26/pdf/2013-17967.pdf