What is the status of the ICD-10?
ICD-10, the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases, was published by the World Health Organization in 1993. Although DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR were developed with the explicit goal of ICD-10 compatibility, they include ICD-9-CM codes since implementation of ICD-10 in the United States has been significantly delayed. Currently, the National Center for Health Statistics is developing a modification of ICD-10 for use in the United States to be known as ICD-10-CM that will be field-tested over the next several years. It is currently anticipated that it will be officially implemented in 2008. (For more information about ICD-10-CM, click here). Around that time, a DSM-IV Coding Revision (DSM-IV-CR) will be published which will include the ICD-10-CM codes in place of the ICD-9-CM codes.
