{"id":128,"date":"2012-02-17T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-02-17T09:29:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:29:19","slug":"hhs-announces-intent-to-delay-icd-10-compliance-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/2012\/02\/17\/hhs-announces-intent-to-delay-icd-10-compliance-date\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><\/strong>As part of President Obama\u2019s commitment to reducing regulatory burden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius today announced that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the date by which certain health care entities have to comply with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis and procedure codes (ICD-10).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The final rule adopting ICD-10 as a standard was published in January 2009 and set a compliance date of October 1, 2013 \u2013 a delay of two years from the compliance date initially specified in the 2008 proposed rule. HHS will announce a new compliance date moving forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">HHS Website:\u00a0<a title=\"HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2012pres\/02\/20120216a.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2012pres\/02\/20120216a.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Press Release (PDF):\u00a0<a title=\"HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/ICD10\/Downloads\/HHSPressReleaseICD10final321612.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/ICD10\/Downloads\/HHSPressReleaseICD10final321612.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><\/strong>As part of President Obama\u2019s commitment to reducing regulatory burden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius today announced that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the date by which certain health care entities have to comply with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis and procedure codes (ICD-10).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The final rule adopting ICD-10 as a standard was published in January 2009 and set a compliance date of October 1, 2013 \u2013 a delay of two years from the compliance date initially specified in the 2008 proposed rule. HHS will announce a new compliance date moving forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">HHS Website:\u00a0<a title=\"HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2012pres\/02\/20120216a.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2012pres\/02\/20120216a.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Press Release (PDF):\u00a0<a title=\"HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/ICD10\/Downloads\/HHSPressReleaseICD10final321612.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/ICD10\/Downloads\/HHSPressReleaseICD10final321612.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,28,29,30],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare-news","tag-health-and-human-services","tag-hhs","tag-icd-10","tag-international-classification-of-diseases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}