CMS Letter To FFS Medicare Providers About ICD-10 Readiness

This document was released on July 7, 2015 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The letter provides guidance to fee-for-service (FFS) Medicaid providers on the pending transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 as the medical code set for medical diagnoses and inpatient hospital procedures. In the letter, CMS said it would provide a grace period in which providers can be paid if the coding is in the right ICD-10 coding family . . .