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ICD-10 DELAY coming.. just like I said it would
shanbull:
--- Quote from: RichardP on March 28, 2014, 02:25:18 PM ---Linda, in the link you gave, there is this statement:
*as of 3/28, ICD-10 deadline has been pushed back to sometime in late 2015!
Is that just wishful thinking on their part, or do we have confirmation that the delay is official?
And, for Michele, just in case she needs to know this - my post about the squirrel was a joke. The ICD-10 Code and definition is correct. But the rest isn't.
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The date is October 1, 2015 - the wording of the bill prohibits implementation of ICD-10 prior to that date. And it isn't official yet. The House passed the bill, but the Senate will not vote on it til Monday evening, as you previously posted. It's going to pass because it's still attached to the bill preventing reimbursement rates from falling 24% as of April 1st (the day after the vote). There isn't time to debate it. It's pretty much a foregone conclusion. It was a sneaky move, lol http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2014/3/27/house-passes-doc-fix-that-includes-one-year-icd-10-delay
PMRNC:
--- Quote ---The date is October 1, 2015 - the wording of the bill prohibits implementation of ICD-10 prior to that date. And it isn't official yet. The House passed the bill, but the Senate will not vote on it til Monday evening, as you previously posted. It's going to pass because it's still attached to the bill preventing reimbursement rates from falling 24% as of April 1st (the day after the vote). There isn't time to debate it. It's pretty much a foregone conclusion. It was a sneaky move, lol http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2014/3/27/house-passes-doc-fix-that-includes-one-year-icd-10-delay
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SNEAKY is the MIDDLE name of the Obama Administration.. funny since their campaign centered around "transparency". Sorry I couldn't help myself. The majority of people agree with this.
RichardP:
--- Quote from: PMRNC on March 28, 2014, 04:16:33 PM ---SNEAKY is the MIDDLE name of the Obama Administration..
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I'm thinking it was the Republicans in the House who pushed this delay through, not the Democrats.
shanbull:
--- Quote from: RichardP on March 28, 2014, 06:40:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: PMRNC on March 28, 2014, 04:16:33 PM ---SNEAKY is the MIDDLE name of the Obama Administration..
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I'm thinking it was the Republicans in the House who pushed this delay through, not the Democrats.
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Based on what I'm hearing, several of the major insurance companies privately freaked out about how they were not going to have infrastructure in place by the 2014 deadline. I'm sure their lobbyists were in contact with both parties. There are also plenty of doctors who wanted the delay and they also have industry lobbying groups. The bills for the House and Senate are actually different, but an identical line of text was added to both.
Edit: I also found this, which is as close to an official rationale as I've found so far:
--- Quote ---The House bill was apparently brokered on a bipartisan basis, most likely as a concession to physicians lamenting the failure of Congress to pass a permanent repeal of the SGR formula. In February, the American Medical Association released a report claiming that implementation costs for medical groups would be greater than originally expected.
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Source: http://www.advisory.com/research/financial-leadership-council/at-the-margins/2014/03/breaking-another-icd10-delay
PMRNC:
--- Quote ---Is that just wishful thinking on their part, or do we have confirmation that the delay is official?
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No Richard, I'm just going by past situations .. it has to go through the senate. They are OBVIOUSLY using the ICD-10 as a bargaining chip, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
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