AMA Adopts New Policies at Annual Meeting

CHICAGO - June 19, 2012 - The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, voted today during its annual policy-making meeting to adopt the following new policies:AMA to Evaluate ICD-11 as a New Diagnostic Coding System: Delegates at the AMA’s Annual Meeting today adopted policy to evaluate ICD-11 as a possible alternative to replace ICD-9. The AMA will conduct more research on this issue and will report back to the House of Delegates in 2013.“ICD-10 coding will create unnecessary and significant financial and administrative burdens for physicians,”