AMA CPT® Assistant - 2014 Issue 4 (April)

ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM Comparison (April 2014)

April 2014 pages 7-9 ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM Comparison There is much anxiety in the coding community about the change from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM. After all, the same diagnosis coding system has been in use in the United States for nearly 30 years; and change is never easy. While it is decidedly a change that needs to be planned for and requires additional training, it is a manageable change because there are many similarities between the two systems. An experienced ICD-9-CM coder will recognize that while the ICD-10-CM codes may look different, many familiar features have been retained in the...

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