Based on today's report from the Office of the Federal Register (OFR),
Official Final Rules -- including formal Federal Regulations -- adopting
updated HIPAA transactions and code sets are scheduled for publication
tomorrow, 1/16/2009, in the Federal Register.

Based on today's OFR report, the Transactions Final Rule has a small
repeating glitch in it. Assuming I read the 'glitched' materials
correctly, version 005010 TR3s will become mandated on the effective
date of the Final Rule ... approximately 3/16/2009, and the current
version 004010+A1 IGs will become un-mandated on 12/31/2011. The
OFR reported Final Rule for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS shows a compliance
date of 10/01/2013. We'll know for certain regarding these dates when
the Final Rules are formally published in the Federal Register. I'll
send another message once links are available.

Dave Feinberg
Rensis Corporation [A Consulting Company]
206-617-1717
DAFeinberg@...
Author of "Understanding HIPAA Communications"