ICD-10 Arrives Early – April 1, 2014: CMS Announces New CMS-1500 Healthcare Claim Form
Starting April 1, 2014, Medicare will accept only the revised version of the form. The revised form will give HIPAA Covered Entities who are health care providers the ability to indicate whether they are using ICD-9 or ICD-10 diagnosis codes, which is important as the October 1, 2014, transition approaches. Effectively this means that any healthcare IT system that was scheduled to be compliant as of October 1, 2014 with ICD-10 must actually comply with a component of the ICD-10 requirements early as of April 1, 2014.