How are ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS different from ICD-9-CM?

When the original ICD code sets were adopted by the World Health Organization, they did not include procedure codes for facility providers. The ICD-9 code sets included 13,000 diagnosis codes and no procedure codes. At that time, the US healthcare industry added 11,000 facility procedure codes and designated the combined codes set as ICD-9-CM.

The new code sets are now in two segments. ICD-10-CM increases diagnosis codes from 13,000 to 68,000 codes. The accompanying ICD-10-PCS code set includes facility procedure codes and increases the total content from 11,000 to 87,000 codes.

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