tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 9

DIAGNOSIS CODING: CDC Readies New ICD-9 Codes

Starting in October, you could have a whole new way to look at Pap smear aftercare, hepatitis, and several other conditions. The National Center for Health Statistics sent a host of proposed ICD-9 diagnosis codes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and expects the final list of new ICD-9s to be published in the Federal Register within two weeks, says Amy Blum, medical classification specialist with the NCHS. Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the NCHS is responsible for creating the codes and diagnoses portion of the ICD-9-CM, Blum says. Then it's up to...

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