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Announcement

Planned Transition to International Classification of Disease-10 (ICD-10) Diagnostic Codes
folder_openData Submissions, Information for Home Health Agenciescalendar_todayPosted February 19, 2013

As per the announcement posted on March 2, 2012, regarding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) transition to the use of International Classification of Disease-10 (ICD-10) diagnostic codes on the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), the HHCAHPS Coordination Team is letting vendors and home health agencies know that we are continuing to monitor the planned transition date.

As soon as a new start date for using ICD-10 codes is announced, the Coordination Team will post an announcement on the HHCAHPS Web site to notify vendors and home health agencies of the start date. In preparation for the transition to ICD-10 codes, the HHCAHPS Coordination Team will modify the XML format used for submission of HHCAHPS Survey data and the HHCAHPS data submission tool to accommodate the format of ICD-10 codes. Instructions for how to submit the new codes and updated XML data file layouts will be made available to vendors, either through an announcement on the HHCAHPS Web site or through the next version of the Protocols and Guidelines Manual. These instructions and guidelines will be made available in plenty of time for vendors to develop and test submission of data files with the new format.

Until then, the HHCAHPS Data Center expects that HHCAHPS survey vendors will continue to submit diagnosis information compliant with the ICD-9 format.

If you have any questions about this announcement, please contact the HHCAHPS Survey Coordination Team via e-mail at hhcahps@rti.org or call toll-free at (866) 354-0985.