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ICD-10 Coalition Urges Congress to Avoid Additional Delays | EHRintelligence.com


Further ICD-10 delays would risk additional disruption and unnecessary costs for the healthcare industry, the ICD-10 Coalition told Congress recently.


The Coalition for ICD-10 has sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging lawmakers not to implement any more delays for the new code set.  After the surprise vote in April pushed the codes back until October 1, 2015, shock and disappointment were pervasive among those who had already mostly prepared themselves for the big switch.  Citing the ongoing costs of retooling ICD-10 transition projects and the desperate need for an expanded diagnosis code set that will foster population health management and more accurate billing, the Coalition stresses the importance of ensuring ICD-10 goes ahead as currently planned.


“ICD-10 implementation delays have been disruptive and costly for all of the coalition members, as well as to health care delivery innovation, payment reform, public health, and health care spending,” states the letter, addressed to leaders of both the House and the Senate. “As you know, significant investments were made by members of our coalition to prepare for the October 2014 implementation prior to enactment of the most recent delay. Many of us had to quickly reconfigure systems and processes that were prepared to use ICD-10 back to ICD-9. Newly trained coders who graduated from ICD-10 focused programs were unprepared to find jobs using the older code set.”




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