tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 18

Industry Notes

You Can Keep Using DSM-IV and V Under ICD-10 Mental health professionals already consult multiple diagnosis resources (including DSM IV, DSM V and ICD-9) when seeing a patient, so it makes sense that they would be confused about how ICD-10 will impact them. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), fortunately, has answers for those practitioners. “It is expected that clinicians may continue to base their diagnostic decisions on the DSM-IV/DSM-V criteria,” CMS says in a recent FAQ on its website. “In addition, it is still perfectly permissible for providers and others to use the...

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