Updates on status of ICD-11 and changes to other classification and terminology systems

I'll also be keeping an eye on AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) and coding industry sites for analysis of the potential impact of US withdrawal from WHO on the continued use of ICD-10-CM codes by providers, payers and patients (and for NCVHS's existing work towards eventual adoption or adaptation of ICD-11).

The content of ICD-10 is copyright* and the US is currently licensed by the WHO to adapt ICD-10 for its own use. All modifications to ICD-10 must conform to WHO's established ICD structure and conventions.

It's not yet known what the WHO's policies are for the continued use of ICD-10 content if a country ceases to be a WHO Member State. But if the US's pulling out of WHO comes to fruition, there may be implications for the continued use of ICD-10-CM for records, data collection, reimbursement and clinical purposes.

Additionally, the US uses the WHO's ICD-10 to code and classify mortality data from death certificates.


*FAQ Licensing ICD-10

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/defa...licies/copyright/who-faq-licensing-icd-10.pdf

 

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National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) holds public meetings. The site has been been locked for at least 10 days. Next Full Committee Meeting was scheduled for March 18-19. No Agenda available and no indication of whether this meeting is going ahead:


Wayback capture: January 21, 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20250121132232/https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/meetings/full-committee-meeting-30/



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NCHS/CMS hold twice yearly Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meetings to discuss proposed changes to ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes and to Procedure Codes. Next meeting was scheduled for March 18-19, 2025. No Federal Notice and this posted yesterday:

 

Full NCVHS Committee Meetings often include an update and presentation from the NCVHS ICD-11 sub working group on progress with the development of a road map for US adoption of ICD-11 or a clinical modification of ICD-11. Unclear what the future of ICD coding will be if the US does withdraw from WHO membership.

Also unclear whether the twice yearly NCHS/CMS public meetings to discuss addition of new codes/changes to existing codes will be reinstated with no public participation in the Zoom meetings; with only a post meeting public comment period or whether the ICD-10 C & M Committee will be stood down.

I will continue to monitor for updates at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd-10-maintenance/meetings.html

 

Update on status of March 18-19, 2025 ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee virtual public meeting:

As anticipated, the spring meeting has been cancelled.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd-10-maintenance/meetings.html

March meeting update

CDC's National Center for Health Statistics will not hold a Spring Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee Meeting. Currently, we plan to hold a C&M meeting in fall 2025.​

This change will not affect the ICD-10-CM code updates that were approved in 2024. Those updates will be implemented on October 1, 2025. Plans for the March 2025 ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting are changing.

We will post additional information as it is available.

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The deadline for submission of requests for topics for discussion at the fall 2025 meeting had been given as June 6 in last September's Topic Packet.

Procedure code requests to CMS at: https://mearis.cms.gov

Diagnosis code requests should be directed to NCHS at: nchsicd10cm@cdc.gov

 

The website of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics remains off line: https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/meetings/full-committee-meeting-22/