AMA chief throws support behind bill to delay ICD-10, says US should wait for ICD-11

ICD-10 should not only be delayed, but scrapped, said Steven Stack, the incoming president of the American Medical Association, throwing his organization’s support behind a bill by Texas Republican Rep. Ted Poe delaying its rollout.  “We support Rep. Poe’s bill,” he said. “We strongly support that.”  Instead, Stack said the United States should wait to change its diagnostic medical coding system until the implementation of ICD-11, Stack said.

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