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By ASHLEY GOLD | 12/03/14 10:00 AM EDT

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GROUPS PUSH FOR ICD-10 DELAY IN LAME DUCK: Various medical groups are pushing for the lame duck session of Congress to pass a two-year delay of the ICD-10 coding system, which CMS has decreed will be implemented next Oct. 1. Another ICD-10 delay could potentially be attached to a continuing resolution on the $157 billion labor, education and HHS funding bill, which expires Dec. 11, or to a repeal of the sustainable growth rate, which physicians also are pressing for. Draft language on the continuing resolution isn’t expected until next week. Groups including the Texas Medical Association, the Southeastern Delegation of the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of the State of New York have pleaded with Congress for the delay. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, has been pushing the anti-ICD-10 implementation message. Sessions said he would “work with my colleagues to ensure physicians are not saddled with untimely and unnecessary regulatory burdens,” but his office declined to give specifics. Speaker John Boehner’s office slipped ICD-10 delay language into last spring’s sustainable growth delay bill (http://politico.pro/1pS2xME). More on that later this morning.

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