Representatives from the Texas Medical Association and the Florida Medical Association are urging physicians from across the country to join them in their efforts to delay ICD-10 implementation until October, 2017.
Stressing the burden placed on their practices to implement, with no apparent direct benefit to individual patient care, they are petitioning Congress to act to delay ICD-10 by the end of the year.
As could be expected, healthcare organizations such as AHIMA and AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders) are urging their members to contact legislators and ask that they support the scheduled October 1, 2015 implementation date.