ICD9 Descriptions

If you are not happy with the ICD9 code descriptions that came with the 2010 code update, tonight we will be including a new set of ICD9 codes with short descriptions. The files we initially received from CMS this year had longer descriptions which caused problems when displayed in certain areas of the software. Some actually were truncated. We since have found a better list which is more in line with what we used in prior years. After doing tonight’s update, run the ICD9 update utility and make sure you check off to overwrite current ICD9 descriptions.