International classification of diseases, 10th edition, clinical modification and procedure coding system: descriptive overview of the next generation HIPAA code sets.
Described are the changes to ICD-10-CM and PCS and potential challenges regarding their use in the US for financial and administrative transaction coding under HIPAA in 2013. Using author constructed derivative databases for ICD-10-CM and PCS it was found that ICD-10-CM's overall term content is seven times larger than ICD-9-CM: only 3.2 times larger in those chapters describing disease or symptoms, but 14.1 times larger in injury and cause sections [...]
Author(s): Steindel, Steven J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.001230