Texas doctors lobby for two-year ICD-10 delay - Modern Healthcare
By Joseph Conn | December 3, 2014
The Texas Medical Association, the nation's largest state medical society for physicians, is asking its 48,000 members to write Congress requesting a two-year delay to the often-postponed implementation date for ICD-10 diagnostic and procedure codes.
The TMA's online exhortation, which includes a sample letter, solicits members to “join physicians across the United States” in the lobbying campaign.
The TMA statement from its president, Dr. Austin King, said it is “imperative that you contact your representative today and explain how you cannot afford the cost and disruption of ICD-10 implementation to your business, especially now, when you are buried in myriad other bureaucratic burdens.”
The latest Texas effort is consistent with long-standing American Medical Association policy toward ICD-10 dating back to 2011.
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