The vast majority of attendees at the American Health Information Management Association's ICD-10 summit in Washington, D.C., April 22-23, reported disappointment in the recent delay of the ICD-10 mandate.
In a mobile poll of 69 attendees, 88 percent reported they were "disappointed" by the delay, compared with about 10 percent that reported relief.
The cause of the disappointment most likely lays in the significant financial outlays the organizations had already made for the ICD-10 transition. Of 54 respondents, 42 percent said their organization had spent more than $1 million on ICD-10 preparation already.
Half of 62 respondents seemed interested in not wanting their preparations to go to waste, and reported being willing to begin voluntarily reporting ICD-10 codes on the former deadline of Oct. 1, 2014.
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