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Review Article| Volume 30, ISSUE 1, P131-146, 2012

Conversion to ICD-10

Implications for Anesthesiologists and Their Practices
Published:August 22, 2012DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aan.2012.06.001
      The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) should use the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) implementation delay to accelerate its efforts to incorporate the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine—Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) adoption and to ensure that all prerequisites and requirements to meet the new target conversion date are met on timely fashion.

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