For one year past the Oct. 1, 2015 deadline, the CMS will reimburse for wrongly coded claims as long as that erroneous code is in the same broad family as the right one. There had been concerns among providers that they wouldn’t be paid if they made minor mistakes trying to implement the new complex coding system.
For details, please refer to these announcements from the AMA Wire and Moden Healthcare.com
https://www.ama-assn.org/ama/ama-wire/post/cms-icd-10-transition-less-disruptive-physicians
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150706/NEWS/150709969
