ICD-10 Bootcamp

January 7-8, 2014
Archbold Memorial Hospital
915 Gordon Ave., Thomasville, GA
Williams Auditorium 

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The compliance deadline for ICD-10 is October 1, 2014. CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner has affirmed the ICD-10 deadline and encourages providers, payers, and vendors across the health care industry to prepare to use the new codes for services provided on or after October 1, 2014.  

An expert on rural health care says the state's decision to turn down federal money to expand Medicaid could cause more rural hospitals to close. 3 rural hospitals in south Georgia have closed this year and a 4th closed its emergency room care.

The CEO of Primary Care Southwest Georgia and president of the Georgia Rural Health Association says without Medicaid expansions, 15 more rural hospitals are at risk of closing which could cause a crisis. But Dr. Ann Addison says new Federally Qualify Health Centers are opening and that helped Blakely get its first pediatrician.

Dr. Ann Addison says "The number of FQHCs in Georgia has increased. These are agencies that provide quality cost effective care so it creates a medical home for these patients and helps prevent unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency room visits" 

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