Is there going to be any equivalence possible between current diagnoses in ICD-9 and the new codes? I can imagine that we may well have to re-enter everything in the problem list if not. But it seems a 401.9 is going to have a more or less equivalent code someplace in ICD-10, and it will save a huge amount of work if it would link to that.


David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands