CMS Announces ICD-10 Implementation Date

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has officially announced that ICD-10 will be implemented on October 1, 2015. Additionally, CMS announced that the end-to-end testing scheduled for July has ben cancelled. The announcement does not come as a surprise, since the legislation prohibited CMS from transitioning to ICD-10 prior to October 1, 2015.…