CMS Releases NCD Transmittal on ICD-9 Translation to ICD-10

On January 18, 2013 CMS Released {Transmittal 1165][1] which is an important piece of communication to providers for the readiness and implementation of ICD-10-CM/PCS. The transmittal provides the creation and update to national coverage determination (NCD) hard-coded shared system edits that contain ICD-9 diagnosis codes with comparable ICD-10 diagnosis codes plus all associated coding infrastructure such as procedure codes, HCPCS/CPT codes, denial messages, frequency edits, POS/TOB/provider specialties, etc. The requirements described in the transmittal reflect the operational changes that are necessary to implement the conversion of the Medicare shared system diagnosis codes specific to the attached Medicare NCD spreadsheets.

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