“The American Medical Association has sent a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner asking his help in halting the implementation of the ICD-10 coding system, reported The Hill’s Healthwatch and iHealthBeat.
The Jan. 17 letter, sent by AMA President James L. Madara, said that the timing of ICD-10 implementation on October 1, 2013 “could not be worse.”
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Ron Shinkman, FierceHealthIT, 27 January 2012
