In a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the American Medical Association asks her to “strongly” reconsider the ICD-10 medical coding set mandate, which the AMA says will place a “crushing burden” on physicians.  The American Medical Association on Wednesday released a study it sponsored showing that projected physicians’ implementation costs for the federally mandated ICD-10 medical coding set will be as much as three times higher than initial estimates. {read more here}