AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2004 Issue 1

Notice

Twice Yearly ICD-9-CM Coding Updates The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 contains a provision for the Secretary to add new diagnosis and procedure codes in April 1 of each year (Pub. Law 108-173, Sec. 503). Code updates will now occur twice yearly on April 1 and October 1. Prior to this legislation, new ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes were implemented once a year on October 1. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to discuss a proposal to accomplish this new congressional requirement in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Hospital...

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