Xerox’s (NYSE: XRX) Health Enterprise platform, a next-generation Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS), has received full federal certification in New Hampshire. 

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has launched a campaign opposing the Protecting Patients and Physicians Against Coding Act. 

The four largest state medical societies have come together to warn the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that the Oct. 1 ICD-10 implementation deadline is a “looming disaster.” 

The majority of providers have not yet conducted ICD-10 testing, according to a survey by the American Health Information Management Association and eHealth Initiative. 

Recent efforts to establish a grace period around the ICD-10 transition will have "far-reaching, negative consequences," according to the Coalition for ICD-10.

Attempts to impact the ICD-10 transition keep coming with a third attempt in about a month now aiming to provide a two-year grace period for providers submitting claims. 

An ICD-10 contingency plan is needed in case the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is unable to process the new codes, members of Congress said in a letter to Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—June 3, 2015—To help hospital organizations and physician practices convert systems, reports and records into the language of ICD-10, 3M has released a new version of the 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool, which has been expanded to include Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) and other HCPCS codes.