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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Report: ICD-10 presents challenges, opportunities for CMS from HealthCare IT

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has its work cut out in transitioning to ICD-10. As the largest payer and the force driving the new code sets in the United States, CMS has a task at least as intimidating as anyone else when it comes to implementation.

“Given the extent to which the code set is built into many business and operating processes and systems, the size of CMS operations, and the complexity of its systems,” the challenges CMS faces are indeed formidable, according to a report published last week from the National Research Council, which CMS assigned to help it better understand how to modernize CMS’ own IT.

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