ICD-10 Update The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially pushed ICD-10 implementation back another year. According to an HHS press release, “This deadline allows providers, insurance companies and others in the healthcare industry time to ramp up their operations to ensure their systems and business processes are ready to go on Oct. 1, 2015.”
Committee Completes Annual Clinical Guidelines Review To support National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) goals and help providers make proactive decisions about appropriate health care in specific clinical circumstances, the Health Alliance Quality Improvement Committee annually reviews and updates adopted clinical guidelines.
We’re increasing the security of Your Health Alliance by requiring all users to reset their passwords every six months as of August 1. You will receive a prompt to reset your password 14 days before it expires.
ICD-10 Transition Delayed to 2015 Many of you have already heard about the ICD-10 delay that was embedded in the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. This act aimed to delay cuts in physicians’ Medicare rates, but it also pushes back implementation of ICD-10 until 2015.
ICD-10 Transition Delayed to 2015 On April 1, President Obama signed bill H.R. 4302, enacting into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. The act was introduced as a temporary solution to the Medicare sustainable growth rate, but it also delays implementation of ICD-10 until October 1, 2015, at the earliest.