provisionally if assigned before remission has occurred.
Coding and Reporting Procedures
Each disorder is accompanied by an identify ing diagnostic and statistical code, which is
typically used by institutions and agencies for data collection and billing purposes. There
are specific recording protocol s for these diagnostic codes (i dentified as coding notes in
the text) that were established  by WHO, the U.S. Centers fo r Medicare and Medicaid Ser-
vices (CMS), and the Centers for Disease Cont rol and Prevention’s National Center for
Health Statistics to ensure co nsistent international recordin g of prevalence and mortality
rates for identified health conditions. For most clinicians, the codes are used to identify the
diagnosis or reason for visit for CMS and private insurance servic e claims. The official
coding system in use in the United States as of publication of this ma nual is ICD-9-CM. Of-
ficial adoption of ICD-10-CM is scheduled to take place on October 1, 2014, and these
codes, which are shown parenthetically in this manual, should not be used until the offi-
cial implementation occurs. Both ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM codes have  been listed 1) pre-
ceding the name of the disorder in the classification and 2) accompanying the criteria set
for each disorder. For some diagnoses (e.g ., neurocognitive and substance/medication-
induced disorders), the appropriate code depe nds on further specification and is listed
within the criteria set for the disorder, as coding  notes, and, in some cases, further clarified
in a section on recording proc edures. The names of some di sorders are followed by alter-
native terms enclosed in parentheses, which,  in most cases, were the DSM-IV names for
the disorders.
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