BC Advantage - 2011 Issue 12

ICD-10 (CM/PCS): The Fear of the Unknown?

The implementation of ICD-10 for diagnosis reporting in the United States has been talked about for many years. Since being developed and adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1994 many wondered if it would ever happen at all. In 1999, the United States implemented ICD-10 for mortality (the reporting of death certificates); however, the use of ICD-10-CM (the U.S. diagnosis coding system) and the development of ICD-10-PCS for procedure reporting in the U.S. was still a while away from being completed. After undergoing several clinical modifications of ICD-10 by the National Center of Health Statistics...

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