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Announcement

Switch to ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes
folder_openData Submissions, Information for Home Health Agenciescalendar_todayPosted March 2, 2012

The purpose of this announcement is to alert home health agencies and Home Health Care CAHPS (HHCAHPS) Survey vendors that at this time, no decision has been made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) about when Medicare health care providers will be required to begin using International Classification of Diseases–10 (ICD-10) diagnosis codes instead of ICD-9 codes. As soon as a new start date for using ICD-10 codes is announced, the HHCAHPS project team will modify the XML format and the HHCAHPS data submission tool to accept ICD-10 diagnosis codes. Until then, the HHCAHPS Data Center will continue to accept ICD-9 codes on HHCAHPS data files and expects that HHCAHPS survey vendors will continue to submit diagnosis information compliant with that format.