Claim Diagnosis E Code IX (FFS)

SAS Name
ICD_DGNS_E_CD9

The code used to identify the 9th external cause of injury, poisoning, or other adverse effect.

Comments

Effective with Version 'J', this field has been expanded from 5 bytes to 7 bytes to accommodate ICD-10.

On October 1, 2015 the conversion from the 9th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM) to version 10 (ICD-10-CM) occurred.

Source: NCH