Okay then - we have an ICD-10 implementation date: Oct. 1, 2014. It has taken 19 years for the industry to get this close to what is actually a fairly modest goal - upgrade a classification system used extensively in healthcare for reimbursement transactions, quality initiatives, epidemiological tracking and clinical research from the thirty-year-old ICD-9-CM to the latest completed version, ICD-10-CM/PCS.
Okay then – we have an implementation date. It has taken 19 years for the industry to get this close to what is actually a fairly modest goal – upgrade a classification system used extensively in healthcare for reimbursement transactions, quality initiatives, epidemiological tracking and clinical research from the 30-year-old ICD-9-CM to the latest completed version, ICD-10-CM.
Since the recent announcement by CMS that ICD-10 implementation will be delayed for certain healthcare entities, some industry pundits have argued, “Let’s just skip ICD-10 and go straight to ICD-11.”