Inpatient Payment System Comments In Brief
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Transition to ICD-10 likely to freeze new ICD-9 codes: AdvaMed says it supports the CMS proposal for a limited freeze on code updates to both ICD-9 (International Classification of Diseases, ninth edition) and ICD-10 code sets during a transition period that runs from Oct. 1, 2011, to Oct. 1, 2013, as long as it includes an exception for adding codes for new technologies (1"The Gray Sheet" April 20, 2009). "AdvaMed, however, would not like to see the transition period used as a reason for tightening up the criteria for getting new codes," the trade group writes in June 18 comments on the agency's Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposal released in April