CMS unsure of ICD-10 readiness until processing begins

Editor's Note

A Government Accountability Office study finds that although extensive testing of transition to ICD-10 codes has been done, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will not know the true functionality of the systems until code processing begins October 1, Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review reports.

The technical support CMS will offer those processing claims and the estimated cost of updating CMS’s systems has cost some $116 million thus far. 

Written by Max Green | CMS has conducted extensive testing of the systems implemented to support transitions to ICD-10, but the true functionality of those systems will not be fully known until code processing begins on Oct. 1, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office study.