2011 Versions of the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Crosswalks
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the 2011 versions of the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS crosswalks, formally referred to as the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs), on the ICD-10 Web site at www.cms.gov/ICD10 .
CMS is required to post the revisions to the crosswalks on its Web site Affordable Care Act of 2010, section 10109(c). Further more, it requires the revisions to the crosswalk to be treated as a code set for with the secretary had adopted standard. The Affordable Care Act required the Secretary of Health and Human Services to task the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee to convene a meeting before January 1, 2011 to receive stakeholder input regarding the crosswalks between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 for the purpose of making appropriate revisions to said crosswalks
In addition, CMS also has posted a document, ICD-10 GEMs 2011 Version Update, Update Summary, which describes the number of comments they received, the type of changes recommended, the types of changes made based on the comments, and the types of comments not accepted and reasons why some comments were not accepted.
Source: CMS Weekly Reading Material
