New ICD-9 Codes Take Effect Oct. 1.

The article reports on the move of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA) Health Care Economics Committee (HCEC) to propose the revision and expansion codes to the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). It notes that the diagnostic code is for speech-language deficits and for the resonance disorders. It mentions that the revision is an improvement over the current classification of the cerebrovascular disease.