Coding and Classification Implementation Team

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Coding and Classification Implementation Team
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Charge

• Codes and classification
• Diseases, injuries, impairments, other health
  problems
• Causes of these conditions
• Actions taken to prevent, diagnose, treat or
  manage these conditions
• including substances, equipment, and supplies used

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Charge

• Responsibilities
• Select standards for codes/classifications for
  administrative transactions and ensure
  appropriate mechanisms for distribution and
  maintenance
• Recommend set of health vocabularies for full
  electronic health records and ensure appropriate
  mechanisms for distribution and maintenance
• Map vocabularies to administrative
  codes/classifications

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Recommendations - 2000

• Diseases, injuries, impairments, etc.
• ICD-9-CM
• Procedures
• ICD-9-CM
• CPT
• CDT
• HCPCS (encompasses CPT and CDT)

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Recommendations - 2000

• Drugs
• For most administrative transactions
• HCPCS
• For pharmacy transactions
• NDC
• Devices
• HCPCS

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Issues

• Use of official implementation guidelines
• Likelihood of changes in some standards for 2001
  and beyond
• e.g., move to ICD-10-CM
• Need to have ability to accept codes and
  identifiers gt 5 characters in 2001 and beyond

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Issues

• Openness of update process for privately owned
  and maintained systems
• Cost and use restrictions for privately owned and
  maintained systems
• Availability of electronic formats suitable for
  full range of users