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COMPLIANCE DATE OCTOBER 1, 2015

News Updates | March 23, 2016

Maintaining Your Progress

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new infographicbased on the Next Steps Toolkit to help you analyze your ICD-10 progress. By keeping your systems and resources updated, you can ensure that your organization continues to move forward. Today, we will explore how to maintain your progress.

Keep Your Coding Tools Up to Date

ICD-10 updates take place annually on October 1, following the same timeline used for ICD-9 updates. Be sure to keep all your systems and coding tools up to date, and to review the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS General Coding Guidelines on a regular basis. With quality reporting and other requirements, it’s more important than ever that you update your coding resources at least annually.
Led by CMS and CDC, the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee is responsible for updates to ICD-10. You can submit proposals (sample proposals from September 2015) for diagnosis code updates to CDC at nchsicd10@cdc.gov. The ICD-10 C&M Committee reviews proposals for potential presentation at its March and September meetings.