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News came out last week that the Department of Health and Human Services has recommended delaying the implementation of ICD-10 a year, from October 2013 to October 2014. The reason they’re giving is that there are still major problems with implementing their new electronic standards for billing, the 5010 version, and thus it’s hard to […]

For most people, seeing the term ICD-10 means nothing. For those in health care, though, this is a very big deal. Medical billing and coding personnel will be significantly affected, along with hospitals and physicians offices and pretty much every other medical entity you can think of. For people in the United States, it’s a […]