Home Health & Hospice Week

Heavy-hitting trade group will weigh in.Home care providers who aren't thrilled with the switch to ICD-10 have a very influential ally. The American Medical Association has made no secret of the fact that it is less than enthralled with the proposition of adopting ICD-10 as the new diagnosis coding system. Background: Not only did the AMA's House of Delegates vote last year to repeal ICD-10 (which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services did not adopt), but the group also applauded the news earlier this year that ICD-10 would be delayed from its original implementation date of 2013.Now the AMA has taken additional steps to express its disillusionment with ICD-10, announcing that its House of Delegates adopted a policy to evaluate ICD-11 as a potential "alternative" to replace ICD-9, an AMA news release noted. "ICD-10 coding will create unnecessary and significant financial and administrative burdens for physicians," said AMA President-elect [...]