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Any piece of healthcare legislation going up before Congress might become a battle for ICD-10 survival. Carl Natale



In some quarters, vigorous opposition to ICD-10 implementation is turning into guerrilla warfare.



The Texas Medical Association (TMA) is encouraging physicians to lobby Congress for a two-year ICD-10 delay. They even provide the text that physicians should cut and paste onto their personal stationery.



The TMA letter cites the number of ICD-10 codes, costs, reimbursement delays and competing federal mandates. Nothing new here.



It's the call to action that I find interesting:



"Please tell Speaker Boehner, Chairman Fred Upton, and Chairman Pete Sessions that you want to add the ICD-10 delay to a must-pass piece of legislation during the upcoming 2014 lame duck session."



This is how the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) became the vehicle to delay ICD-10 implementation earlier this year. It could work again, because there might not be anyone in Congress who cares enough about ICD-10 implementation to try to strip out any anti-ICD-10 amendments.



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