While Tuesday’s election was important for many reasons, none of them have a direct impact on the ICD-10 debate.

This is a behind the scenes issue that doesn’t appear in an election speech or advertisement. Thus I don’t know if there is U.S. Representative or Senator who harbors a deep hatred of ICD-9 coding and will not let anything get in the way of ICD-10 implementation Oct. 1.

And it doesn’t matter who controls the U.S. Senate. This is kind of a non-partisan non-issue.

There are some other Capitol Hill events that can affect the ICD-10 timeline.

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