According to the report, Seattle-based ICD-10 expert Mandy Willis responded that EHR, HIE, HIT and meaningful use cannot achieve maximum success with ICD-9. She added the new coding system is necessary because the code specificity and expansion prompt providers to think of healthcare differently.
Skip Stein, president of Management Consulting Services, added that some providers have already spent millions of dollars to meet federal mandates, and a delay would force them to use ICD-9 and ICD-10 simultaneously while the rest of the industry caught up. The respondents seemed to agree there was no good reason to delay ICD-10, considering progress that has already been made.
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