Use CMS ICD-10 fact sheet to understand general equivalence mappings
HIM Connection, April 21, 2009
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CMS has issued a fact sheet titled General Equivalence Mappings: ICD-9-CM to and from ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS in which it addresses the top 10 questions and answers. Topics include cases in which there is a one-to-one map as well as those in which there is no translation between the two systems, as well as a variety of others. Hospitals must implement ICD-10 no later than October 1, 2013.
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