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Three Ways to Avoid the Negative Effects of ICD-10 Payer Un-readiness

The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition (ICD-10) is a clinical cataloging system developed by the WHO and modified by the CMS and other stakeholders in the US into the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. The deadline for this system’s implementation is October 1, 2015. If you are involved in providing healthcare or administrative services the odds are, you will be required to make sure that all your systems are compatible with the ICD-10 system before the set deadline. The Centers for…