A new survey of more than 1,000 office-based physician practices expressed widespread and significant concern about the cost and the workflow burden perceived to be coming their way from the planned, nationwide rollout of the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes. FULL STORY »
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has introduced a Senate version of the Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013, a bill aimed at blocking HHS from implementing the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes, which it is scheduled to do on Oct. 1, 2014. FULL STORY »
The creation of the WEDI ICD-10 State Collaborative Initiative was announced last week in Las Vegas during the annual national conference of the not-for-profit Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange. FULL STORY »
Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed... FULL STORY »
It's the American Medical Association's policy to “vigorously work to stop the implementation” of the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes, but a new informational report from the AMA board of trustees suggests that skipping straight to ICD-11 may not be a good idea. FULL STORY »
Even with a year's grace period, many providers, payers and health information technology vendors are still running behind schedule for the massive conversion next year to ICD-10 codes. FULL STORY »
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