Key Objectives:
- To become familiar with the tools and guidance documents available or under development to assist epidemiologists and researchers in the analysis of injury morbidity data coded in ICD-10-CM
- To discuss common problems or issues identified in working with ICD-10-CM coded data and to share tips and lessons learned
Brief Summary:
For the past two decades, injury epidemiologists and researchers have routinely analyzed injury morbidity data coded using the Clinical Modification of the 9th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM). Beginning in October 2015, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) required that all hospitals and health care providers covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) use the Clinical Modification of the 10th revision of the ICD (ICD–10–CM) when reporting medical diagnosis information. This transition from the use of ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM for coding injury morbidity has raised several challenges for injury epidemiologists who analyze ICD-coded hospital discharge and emergency department datasets for surveillance and research. This roundtable provides an opportunity to hear about tools that have been developed to aid in this transition, as well as to raise questions and share lessons learned. Tools developed by the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and guidance documents being developed by an Injury Surveillance Workgroup of the Safe States Alliance will be described. Attendees will be encouraged to share their experiences, identify common problems and concerns, discuss possible solutions and define additional tools or assistance needed by the injury epidemiology community to maintain standardization and comparability with historical practices.