Providers, suppliers, billing companies and clearinghouses should delay acknowledgement testing for ICD-10 until after Oct. 6, 2014, when Medicare is expected to update its system, according to a notice from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Niall Brennan, acting director, CMS Offices of Enterprise Management.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is moving forward with restructuring as HITECH’s health IT infrastructure and program investments draw to a close.

The Department of Health & Human Services and four other federal agencies have failed to meet incremental development requirements for their IT projects, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, nominee for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services commissioner, pledged her support to federal healthcare reform efforts and promised Congress she would foster positive relationships with all political parties during her confirmation hearing on May 8.

After one month of uncertainty, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services formally announced the new ICD-10 compliance date: Oct. 1, 2015.

Federal mandates, mobile health, patient engagement, privacy and security were top issues.

Language in the last minute SGR patch, Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, mandated that ICD-10 be delayed for at least a year but did not specify an exact timeline.

Florida legislators are considering a Senate bill that would increase the use of telemedicine and establish requirements for health providers who treat patients remotely.