Senate Approves ICD-10 Delay

In a 64-35 vote Monday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that extends the ICD-10 deadline to at least Oct. 1, 2015.

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The bill, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, largely deals with the delay of a reimbursement cuts to physicians under Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula. The bill shields physicians from a 24 percent reimbursement cut scheduled to take effect April 1, 2014 until at least the end of March 2015, and is the 17th short-term legislative solution to avoiding SGR cuts Congress has passed since 2003.

Read the full article on Becker’s Hospital Review.

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