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House passes Medicare bill: No change to ICD-10 implementation date

We are half-way there!  The House overwhelmingly passed legislation to repeal Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula – without any mention of ICD-10. So the bill does nothing to change the current implementation date of 10/1/15. The vote was 392-37. Now we move on to the Senate……