Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2009 Issue 13
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Article Overview
This brief article explains that CMS provides crosswalk tools to help users compare diagnosis codes between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM. It is relevant to coders and billing professionals who are preparing for the transition and want to understand the availability and limits of equivalency mapping resources.
Why This Topic Matters
It highlights an official CMS resource that supports code-set transition work and helps readers recognize that not every diagnosis code maps cleanly between the two systems.
What You Will Learn
- What CMS mapping resources are intended to support
- How crosswalk tools relate to the ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM transition
- Why direct one-to-one comparisons may not always exist between diagnosis code sets
- Where to look for the referenced CMS mapping resource
Who Should Read This
- Medical coders
- Billing professionals
- Compliance staff
- Healthcare administrators
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