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Start training your staff on the diagnosis code changes that will go into effect Oct. 1. CMS will adopt the ICD-10-CM additions, revisions and deletions that it previewed in April.
 
 
When CMS released a list of 63 preventive service codes that could be reported with an E/M service and complexity care add-on code G2211 in CMS 100-20, Change Request 13705, people discovered several services were missing. A new change request updates the list.
 
 
The proposed ICD-10 code changes — released with the FY2026 Hospital Inpatient PPS (IPPS) proposed rule on April 11 — include a new code for type 2 diabetes mellitus in remission, more than 100 new codes to capture non-pressure chronic ulcers in various stages as well as new codes for malignant inflammatory neoplasms. 
 
 
On April 3, the Senate confirmed Mehmet Oz as CMS Secretary in a 53-45 vote, giving the one-time celebrity TV doctor, cardiothoracic surgeon and Pennsylvania congressional candidate the reins of the federal agency that oversees the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
 
 
Medical groups will see the early termination of several payment models from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CCMI), including two primary care-focused models, an end-stage renal disease (ESRD) model and a Maryland-specific program.
 

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