International Classification of Diseases

                     ---   10th Revision   ---

                       Clinical Modification

                               2009

                           (ICD-10-CM)

                    in Portable Document Format


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The files listed below are the 2009 update of the ICD-10-CM. Content changes to the Tabular are described in a separate file that is included along with the main file compressed in zip format.  Content changes to the General Equivalence Mapping Files are described in a separate file.  The index has not had content changes.

These files have been created by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), under authorization by the World Health Organization.  These files are in Portable Document Format, and are available on the Internet, in a compressed format.  

See the NCHS web site About ICD-10-CM linked below, for more details about the ICD-10-CM.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/icd9/abticd10.htm

These files are available from the CDC FTP site, which is linked below.  

ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Publications/ICD10CM/2009/

The files included in this distribution have been compressed in the ZIP format, which is compatible with PKZIP and PKUNZIP programs, WinZip, and other file compression and decompression programs.  

The 2009 ICD-10-CM files available from the CDC FTP server as described above are listed below, along with the files size in bytes, and a brief description.  All content files are compressed in ZIP format, and the files included in each ZIP file are listed below the ZIP file name.  These files have been made available in January 2009.  Subsequent to initial release, the file describing changes to the ICD-10-CM descriptions was updated (2009_I10cm_desc_chg2.pdf).  It had originally accompanied the General Equvalence Mapping (GEM) files, but it was separated to enable the update to be obtained by itself (by downloading the file 2009_I10cm_desc_chg2.zip).  The other GEM files have been made available in the file Dxgem2009b.zip.  Also, the 2009 Guidelines for ICD-10-CM have been completed and are available in the file Guidelines10cm2009.pdf, within the file Guidelines10cm2009.zip.  

File Name                     File Size     Description

Guidelines10cm2009.zip          307,064
  Guidelines10cm2009.pdf        566,971     Guidelines for ICD-10-CM

Dxgem2009b.zip                1,158,920     General Equivalence Mapping (GEM) files
  2009_I10gem.txt             1,622,124     ICD-10-CM to ICD-9-cM GEM
  2009_I9gem.txt                700,476     ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-cM GEM
  Dxgem_guide_2009.pdf          306,203     Guide to GEM files
  I10cm_desc.txt             17,707,300     ICD-10-CM Codes and Descriptions

2009_I10cm_desc_chg2.zip         11,177     Related to GEM files 
  2009_I10cm_desc_chg2.pdf       20,275     Changes to ICD-10-CM descriptions

index.2009.zip                7,386,597
  i10idx2009.pdf             12,712,321     ICD-10-CM Index

tab2009.zip                   5,242,792
  i10tab2009.pdf              9,264,168     ICD-10-CM Tabular List
  i10tab2009chg.pdf              13,025     Changes to Tabular List


For any questions or comments related to ICD-10-CM, please see the contact information in the About ICD-10-CM web page linked previously.