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International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 Conversion from ICD-9 and Related Code Infrastructure of the Medicare Shared Systems as They Relate to CMS National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) (CR 1 of 3) (ICD-10)

Guidance for the change request (CR) that both creates and updates 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.

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Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: September 14, 2012

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