The ICD is being revised as we speak, I know the project manager handling it for a large national carrier. The AMA didn't get any delay of new codes.
I don’t think AMA gets any money out of using ICD-9 or the forthcoming disaster of ICD-10, the diagnosis coding. They get it for CPT, the procedure coding, which isn’t changing, at least not yet. AMA was foolish to go along with ICD-10 initially, and came to its senses too soon to stop it.