AMA hoping to stop ICD-10 use in billing

Monday, 28 November 2011 08:57

According to an AMA news article, "The change would force practices to learn roughly 69,000 new codes. ICD-9 has about 14,000 codes. The Medical Group Management Assn. estimates that implementing ICD-10 would cost a three-physician practice $85,000."  Read on for additional details important to medical practices.