In the wake of the disaster that was the launch of Healthcare.gov, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will allow limited end-to-end testing of Medicare claims filed under ICD-10 codes, the agency announced last week.
Healthcare providers must switch to the ICD-10 coding standard by Oct. 1, 2014. For months CMS had stated that the only testing it planned to do was " "front-end ICD-10 testing between MACs and their trading partners." Those limited tests will run next week from March 3 to March 7. However, shortly after the botched launch of Healthcare.gov, CMS began to slowly backpedal, announcing it was examining the possibility of end-to-end testing.
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