AMA Wants to Wait Two Years, At a Minimum

June 5, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on AMA Wants to Wait Two Years, At a Minimum

The American Medical Association believes that a minimum of a two-year delay is necessary to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on physician practices and evaluate whether an alternative code set is more appropriate.

Health Data Management brought this latest news to our attention in their article, “AMA: Postpone ICD-10 At Least Two Years.” They reference that other countries have implemented a modified version of ICD-10 with substantial government support.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.