The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) planned end-to-end testing of ICD-10 billing code submissions during the week of July 21 through 25, 2014, has been canceled due to the one year implementation delay recently passed by Congress. CMS says that additional opportunities for end-to-end testing will be available in 2015.

The temporary patch of the sustainable growth rate (SGR), passed by Congress in April delayed the original implementation of ICD-10, which was to begin on Oct. 1, 2014.

CMS is expected to release an interim final rule in the near future that will formalize the new compliance date of Oct. 1, 2015.