Breaking News: CMS Delays 5010 Implementation

You may not have heard that CMS has announced today that it “will hold off until March 31, 2012, on enforcing its rule requiring hospitals, physician practices, health plans and claims clearinghouses to switch to using the ASC X12 Version 5010 standards for the electronic transmission of healthcare claims and other administrative communications."
See the press release at:
http://www.cms.gov/ICD10/Downloads/CMSStatement5010EnforcementDiscretion111711.pdf