On August 22, 2008 the Department of Health and Human Services published a Proposed Rule that would modify two of the medical data code set standards adopted in the Transactions and Code Sets final rule. The Proposed Rule would modify the standard code sets for coding diagnoses and inpatient hospital procedures by concurrently adopting the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD -10-CM) for diagnosis coding, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) for inpatient hospital procedure coding. These new codes would replace the ICD-9-CM Volumes 1 and 2 and the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification ("CM") Volume 3 for a diagnosis in procedure codes, respectively. Comments on the proposed rule are being accepted until 5:00 p.m. on October 21, 2008.
Paul Welk
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