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ICD-10 COALITION WANTS TO KEEP SWITCH DATE AT OCT. 1, 2015: A group of organizations that favor switching to the more complex ICD-10 coding system next October urged congressional leaders to keep the compliance date as is. In a letter to Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the ICD-10 Coalition reminded the leaders that a one-year delay of implementation cost $6.8 billion, according to HHS estimates. “Further delays beyond Oct. 1, 2015 range from $1 billion to $6.6 billion in additional costs,” the letter stated. “Nearly three quarters of the hospitals and health systems surveyed just before the current delay were confident in their ability to successfully implement ICD-10.” The American Medical Association has long opposed the move to ICD-10. AMA President Robert Wah reiterated this last week. “For more than a decade, the AMA kept ICD-10 at bay,” he said, “and we want to freeze it in carbonite.”
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