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ICD-10 Sentinel:

Scrutinize AMA and Community Reaction to Implementation Delay

Published on Wed Jul 04, 2012

Watchful waiting will keep your lab ready. While you're waiting for CMS to make a final announcement about the proposed ICD-10 implementation delay from Oct. 1, 2013 to Oct. 1, 2014, plenty of professionals have taken the opportunity to sound off on the code set change. With comments coming from heavy-hitters like the American Medical Association (AMA), we thought you should hear some of the chatter that might sway the CMS decision. AMA Raises the Stakes Not only did the AMA applaud CMS's proposed one year ICD-10 implementation delay, the agency went even further in in a letter to CMS on the subject: "We strongly urge CMS to further extend the ICD-10 deadline at a minimum to October 1, 2015," wrote AMA CEO James L. Madara, MD. "A two-year delay of the compliance deadline for ICD-10 is a necessary first step." That's not all: Now the AMA has taken additional [...]
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