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icd9 (version 1.3.1)

parseLeafDescriptionsAll: get billable codes from all available years

Description

for versions 23 to 32, those which are on the CMS web site, get any codes with long or short descriptions. Earlier years only have abbreviated descriptions.

Usage

parseLeafDescriptionsAll(save = FALSE, fromWeb = FALSE, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

save
single logical value, if TRUE the source text or CSV file will be saved in inst/extdata, otherwise (the default) the data is simply returned invisibly.

Value

data frame with icd9, descShort and descLong columns. NA is placed in descLong when not available.

Source

http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/codes.html