S. 972 · 113th Congress
Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Thomas Coburn
- Introduced
- 2013-05-16
- Latest action
- 2013-05-16 · Introduced in Senate
Summary
Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from implementing, administering, or enforcing specified regulations insofar as they would replace International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 with ICD-10 as a standard for code sets for appropriate data elements for financial and administrative transactions involving the electronic exchange of health information.
(The ICD is a health care classification system of diagnostic codes for classifying diseases.)