Of the following, which is not a reason that the United States did not implement ICD-10 at the time other countries did?

A. unknown whether ICD-10 would meet the needs of the United States
B. increased training needs
C. costly to convert from one coding system to the other
D. decision whether ICD-10 or CPT would be used to code diagnoses

Answer: D

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