CMS ICD-10 Transition Timeline For Small Hospitals At A Glance

January 1, 2013
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the transition timeline to help small hospitals prepare to transition from using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 code sets to the ICD-10 code sets by October 1, 2014. The ICD-9 code set has about 14,000 codes; the ICD-10 set has about 69,000 codes. The switch affects health care providers and health insurers, as well as hospitals.
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