Jill McLaughlin
Senior Member
- Messages
- 196
Sample letter to NCHS
Dear Sir/Madam:
I am an ME patient and have an ME diagnosis
or - as a patient/family member/stakeholder in this
matter, I strongly object to the combination of ME and
CFS under ICD code G93.3. NCHS has coded ME
and CFS accurately and separately in the original
intent for ICD-10-CM. Please keep the ME and CFS
codes/classification/diagnoses separate.
ME has been coded at G93.3 and should not
be changed or subdivided as in NCHS Option2.
The classification for ME should be and remain as G93.3 under
Diseases of the Nervous System. Based on science and policy,
it is not clinically valid to classify CFS at code G93.3 as the
Coalition 4 ME/CFS proposal has recommended. Such changes
should not be made to ICD-9 or 10CM or to the future ICD-11.
Send to: NCHS <nchsicd9CM@cdc.gov>,
Donna Pickett <dfp4@cdc.gov> ASAP! Deadline is Nov 18..
Dear Sir/Madam:
I am an ME patient and have an ME diagnosis
or - as a patient/family member/stakeholder in this
matter, I strongly object to the combination of ME and
CFS under ICD code G93.3. NCHS has coded ME
and CFS accurately and separately in the original
intent for ICD-10-CM. Please keep the ME and CFS
codes/classification/diagnoses separate.
ME has been coded at G93.3 and should not
be changed or subdivided as in NCHS Option2.
The classification for ME should be and remain as G93.3 under
Diseases of the Nervous System. Based on science and policy,
it is not clinically valid to classify CFS at code G93.3 as the
Coalition 4 ME/CFS proposal has recommended. Such changes
should not be made to ICD-9 or 10CM or to the future ICD-11.
Send to: NCHS <nchsicd9CM@cdc.gov>,
Donna Pickett <dfp4@cdc.gov> ASAP! Deadline is Nov 18..