The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have both applauded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the release of more ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes well before Oct. 1, 2016.
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released roughly 1,900 diagnosis codes that will be added to the ICD-10 coding system for healthcare claims in fiscal year 2017. Some 3,651 new ICD-10 inpatient procedure codes for FY 2017 were posted earlier this month.
