BC Advantage - 2008 Issue 7

ICD-9-CM 2009 Changes

This year's ICD-9-CM updates are numerous and broad reaching. Here are the stats:Volume    1 New          367 Updated   60 Invalid     25 (no deletions; all codes became non-specific) Volume    3 New         60 Updated  34 Invalid    5 (no deletions; all codes became non-specific) In addition to the code changes there are over two hundred pages of changes to the official ICD-9-CM coding manuals. Let's look at some of the groups of changes in Volume 1 to see...

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