International Classification of Diseases

                     ---   9th Revision   ---

                       Clinical Modification

                          October 1, 2005

                            (ICD-9-CM)

                       in Rich Text Format


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The files listed below include the entire text of "The
International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical
Modification" (ICD-9-CM), Sixth Edition, issued for use beginning
October 1, 2005 for federal fiscal year 2006 (FY06).  The 
ICD-9-CM is maintained jointly by the National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
Services (CMS). 

These files are in Rich Text Format and may be imported into most
word processors with indentation intact.  These files come from
the official version of the ICD-9-CM, which is available on
CD-ROM from the U.S. Government Printing Office, (202) 512-1800, 
order number 017-022-01590-1.  This CD-ROM includes Folio 
VIEWS (tm) software, which features keyword searching and 
hypertext linking.

These files are available on the Internet, in a compressed
format.  See the NCHS web site on classification of disease for
information, uniform resource locator (URL):

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm

This NCHS web site also has links to a Conversion Table for 
1986-2005, and to the Official Guidelines for ICD-9-CM, in Adobe 
Acrobat (tm) Portable Document Format (PDF).  The V Code Table 
will be found as part of the Guidelines.  For downloading of other 
files listed below, this site has links to the following FTP site, 
URL: 

ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Publications/ICD9-CM

The most recent 2005 files will be in a subdirectory of this site
labeled 2005.  Earlier files will be in subdirectories identified 
by the year.  

A separate file for the preface is in an RTF file.  The other 
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 following table lists file names and sizes when extracted for 
the ICD-9-CM files available by FTP, for use as of October 1, 
2005, for federal fiscal year 2006 (FY06).  Please note that 
Appendix B, the Glossary of Mental Disorders, has been retired 
and is no longer distributed with the ICD-9-CM.

Filename       Size in  Expanded      Expanded   Description
               bytes    Files         File
                                      Sizes
------------   -------  ------------  ---------  ----------------
APPNDX06.ZIP    49,106  Dmorph06.RTF    107,539  Appendix A, 
                                                 Morphology of 
                                                 Neoplasms
                        Ddrgcl06.RTF     31,195  Appendix C, 
                                                 Classification 
                                                 of Drugs
                        Dindst06.RTF     23,302  Appendix D, 
                                                 Classification 
                                                 of Industrial 
                                                 Accidents
                        Dc_3d06.RTF     129,941  Appendix E, List
                                                 of Three-Digit 
                                                 Categories
DDRUGS06.ZIP    63,823  Ddrugs06.RTF    538,123  Table of Drugs 
                                                 and Chemicals
DINDEX06.ZIP   836,307  Dindex06.RTF  7,446,036  Index to 
                                                 Diseases
EINDEX06.ZIP    43,429  Eindex06.RTF    450,501  Index to 
                                                 External Causes
DTAB06.ZIP     535,963  Dtab06.RTF    7,633,088  Tabular List of 
                                                 Diseases
PINDEX06.ZIP   208,124  Pindex06.RTF  1,918,108  Index to 
                                                 Procedures
PTAB06.ZIP     172,041  Ptab06.RTF    2,557,202  Tabular List of 
                                                 Procedures
Prefac06.RTF    32,204  ---           ---        Preface

Questions and comments regarding the function or format of these 
files should be addressed to the Data Dissemination Branch, 
National Center for Health Statistics, at (301) 458-4636, or by 
e-mail to:  nchsquery@cdc.gov.

Coding questions should be submitted to:

  Coding Advice
  Central Office on ICD-9-CM
  American Hospital Association
  One North Franklin
  Chicago, IL 60606

The phone number for the Central Office on ICD-9-CM is:  
(312) 422-3366.  The fax number is (312) 422-4583.  They do not 
accept phone inquiries.

Details about how to submit questions on coding are available
from the Central Office on ICD-9-CM web site, at the following 
URL:

http://www.ahacentraloffice.com/ahacentraloffice/html/coding_advice/icd9cm/