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More than 3,000 changes and impactful revisions in tabular instruction are coming to ICD-10 when the FY2017 code set takes effect on Oct.1. CMS posted the final full addenda list along with an updated tabular, alphabetic index, neoplasm table, table of drugs and chemicals and index of external causes on June 22.
A 2017 budget bill that the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved last week proposes to cut all funding for a program that provides education and enrollment assistance to Medicare beneficiaries.
Here's some good news for labs that were dreading the new payment system for clinical diagnostic tests: CMS will delay implementation for one year, according to the final rule. The new fee schedule - which will be based on what labs receive from private payers - will kick in Jan. 1, 2018.
Should a patient walk through your doors with a question or concern about the Zika virus, will your office be ready to respond?
A strong advocate for relieving doctors of their meaningful use reporting burden has lost her House primary election and will leave Congress. But don't despair -- her replacement has largely voted with her on health IT issues. 

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