AMA & CMS Agree to 1-Year ICD-10 Implementation Flexibilities. Read about the decision made by the AMA and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to enact a 1-year ICD-10 implementation period. Discover the AMA's commitment to making the ICD-9 to ICD-10 transition as smooth as possible for physicians and their practices.
Moot(noun) a ring for gauging wooden pins. Moot(verb) to argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion. Moot(verb) specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
Because Federal Courts only have constitutional authority to resolve actual disputes (see Case or Controversy) legal actions cannot be brought or continued after the matter at issue has been resolved, leaving no live dispute for a court to resolve. In such a case, the matter is said to be moot. For Supreme Court decisions focusing on mootness, see, e.g., Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, 520 U.S. 43 (1997) and Hicklin v. Orbeck, 437 U.S. 518 (1978).