BC Advantage - 2012 Issue 4

How Reading Tea Leaves Could Foretell that HHS Would Blink on ICD-10

For those who practice the medieval European practice of foretelling the future by reading tea leaves, the recent announcement that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will reexamine the timeline for the implementation of ICD-10 should not come as a surprise. The first leaf was a Nov. 15, 2011 announcement by the American Medical Association (AMA), which urged a halt to implementing ICD-10. "The implementation of ICD-10 will create significant burdens on the practice of medicine, with no direct benefit to individual patients' care," AMA President Peter W. Carmel said at the time. "At...

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