CMS Says Testing Confirms Medicare Ready For ICD-10 Claims

CMS says the latest round of thorough ICD-10 testing, which was completed in July, showed that the agency is ready to accept and process ICD-10 claims come October. The agency announced Thursday (Aug. 27) that about the same percentage of claims were accepted during the last round of end-to-end testing -- 87 percent -- as had been accepted in the previous two rounds of thorough testing in January and April -- 88 percent and 81 percent. But CMS notes that...