The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) announced that it will conduct end-to-end ICD-10 testing to a small sample group of providers this summer.

Another group has called federal ICD-10 testing plans into question. This time, a group of Republican senators have sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Administrator Marilyn Tavenner warning that inadequate testing of ICD-10 code sets could result in "system-wide errors and delay[s]" similar to those that hampered the launch of HealthCare.gov.

A few days after initiating new legislation to decrease FDA’s regulatory authority over mobile health, Sens. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Angus King (I-Maine) penned an editorial in USA Today asserting that the agency’s slow regulatory processes hinder innovation.

The 2014 Office of Inspector General (OIG) Workplan promises that the agency will look for more cases of hospitals miscoding malnutrition cases in Medicare patients as cases of kwashiorkor. Already this year, the agency has reached settlements with Mercy Medical Center, in Des Moines, Iowa, and Christus Saint Vincent Regional Medical Center, in Santa Fe, N.M., over incorrect billing for kwashiorkor in a combined total of 217 patients who actually did not have the disease.

FDA has issued a final rule requiring medical device manufacturers to electronically submit reports of adverse events associated with their products.

Meaningful Use and ICD-10 dominated the headlines again this week. It seems this could be the case most weeks this year.

Reston, VA, February 10, 2014 -- The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Cooperative Exchange and other private industry partners, today announced the launch of its ICD-10 Success Initiative webinar series. The purpose of these webinars is to help health IT stakeholders meet the October 1 ICD-10 compliance deadline and to provide answers to common questions.

ICD-10 implementation will cost physicians “dramatically” more than previously estimated, according to a cost study initiated by the American Medical Association (AMA) and conducted by Nachimson Advisors.