CMS Announces More Successful ICD-10 Testing, Names Ombudsman

Healthcare Informatics: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced another successful round of week-long ICD-10 end-to-end testing.

Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) healthcare providers, clearinghouses, and billing agencies participated in a third successful ICD-10 end-to-end testing week with all Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and the Durable Medical Equipment (DME) MAC Common Electronic Data Interchange (CEDI) contractor from July 20 through 24, 2015, the agency said. CMS was able to accommodate most volunteers, representing a broad cross-section of provider, claim, and submitter types.

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