In March, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services conducted an ICD-10 testing week. Approximately 2,600 participating testers submitted more than 127,000 claims with ICD-10 codes to the Medicare Fee-for-Service claims system.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has extended the partial ICD-10 code freeze until October 2016, according to an EHR Intelligence report.
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