�America's hospitals strongly support moving forward to ICD-10, a fresh coding system that will allow for better affected role quality through improved health technology and data compendium. We applaud the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) proposal to move forward with the borrowing of this important scheme.
To improve health upkeep services our hospitals need a robust coding assortment system. ICD-10 is an important parting of hospital efforts to improve and provide quality care for patients providing greater specificity and detail about disease and unwellness.
As health care becomes increasingly complex, the stream system, ICD-9-CM, is outdated and nearing its capacity to admit the addition of novel codes. This significant defect impedes the adoption of new wellness technology, hinders quality data collection and analysis and creates less accurate reimbursement. The acceptance of ICD-10 is long over imputable and the replacement to ICD-9-CM has been discussed over the past ten years.
We urge CMS to quickly undertake the regulatory march to replace ICD-9-CM with ICD-10. The AHA recognizes that the health care field will need a minimum of two age to implement ICD-10. The issuance of this rulemaking process alerts health fear organizations to begin preparations for its eventual acceptance.
Hospitals ar encouraged by today's rule and ar fully supportive of the transition. We look forth to working closely with CMS on the inside information of the rule and process for implementation.
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