AHIMA's Advocacy Efforts

For more than a decade, AHIMA has called upon the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—the code set maintenance organization for the United States—and the healthcare industry to take quick and decisive action to expedite the adoption and implementation of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS code sets, rules, and guidelines as a replacement for ICD-9-CM.

Testimony and Comments

ICD-10 Letter to the Senate from AHIMA, AMIA and AdvaMed	Oct. 2008
ICD-10 Letter to the House of Representatives from AMIA, AMIA and AdvaMed	Oct. 2008
ICD-10 Coalition Letter	June 2008
Coalition Letter to Secretary on Implementation of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS	June 2007
Joint Position Statement on Adoption of ICD-10	June 2006
AHIMA Statement in Support of Prompt Adoption of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Medical Code Set Standards in the United States (AHIMA Position Statement)	July 2005
AHIMA Testimony on Health Information Technology, Quality Data and the Need for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS before the Subcommittee on Health of the House Ways and Means Committee	July 2005
AHIMA Testimony to NCVHS on Computer-Assisted Coding	July 2005
AHIMA Testimony to HHS Task Force on Stimulating Innovation in Medical Technologies on Adoption of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS	Nov. 2004
AHIMA Comments to PITAC's Recommendation Regarding ICD-10 and SNOMED-CT	April 2004
AHIMA letter to Chairman Johnathan Javitt, MD, Health Care Delivery and Information Technology Subcommittee, PITAC, on the Adoption of ICD-10	March 2004
NCVHS Presentation on ICD-10-CM Field Testing Results	Sept. 2003
AHIMA Letter to Secretary Thompson on the Adoption of ICD-10	July 2003
AHIMA Testimony to NCVHS on ICD-10-CM	May 2002
AHIMA Testimony to NCVHS on ICD-10-PCS	April 2002