Clarification: Coalition for Diagnostic Rights website

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Clarification: Coalition for Diagnostic Rights

A website called Coalition for Diagnostic Rights has recently been launched.

The site includes references to Suzy Chapman and to Dx Revision Watch.

Suzy Chapman/Dx Revision Watch is not associated with or affiliated to the Coalition for Diagnostic Rights website or with any registered or unregistered organization associated with that site, and has no responsibility for content published on that site, or published in the name of that site on other platforms.

Suzy Chapman
Dx Revision Watch

Correspondence In Press in response to Dimsdale et al paper: Somatic Symptom Disorder: An important change in DSM

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Update: The four letters, below, published In Press in Journal of Psychosomatic Research are now published in the December 2013 issue:

Issue: Vol 75 | No. 6 | December 2013 | Pages 497-588

Update: Editorial by Michael Sharpe, DSM-5 Somatic symptom disorder Work Group member

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/203/5/320.abstract
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/203/5/320.full.pdf+html

Editorial: Somatic symptoms: beyond ‘medically unexplained’

BJP November 2013 203:320-321; doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.122523

Michael Sharpe FRCPsych, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK.

Abstract

Somatic symptoms may be classified as either ‘medically explained’ or ‘medically unexplained’ – the former being considered medical and the latter psychiatric. In healthcare systems focused on disease, this distinction has pragmatic value. However, new scientific evidence and psychiatric classification urge a more integrated approach with important implications for psychiatry.

A paper by DSM-5 Work Group members, Dimsdale JE, Creed F, Escobar J, Sharpe M, Wulsin L, Barsky A, Lee S, Irwin MR, Levenson J, titled Somatic Symptom Disorder: An important change in DSM, was published in the September issue of Journal of Psychosomatic Research.

There are four responses to this paper currently In Press. Subscription or payment is required to access the full text of these responses but the Dimsdale et al paper is now available free of charge:

http://www.jpsychores.com/inpress

http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(13)00345-0/fulltext

Correspondence

The somatic symptom disorder in DSM 5 risks mislabelling people with major medical diseases as mentally ill

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.09.005

Winfried Häuser

Department of Internal Medicine I, Klinikum Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

Frederick Wolfe

National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, USA

In Press Corrected Proof Received 2 September 2013; accepted 25 September 2013. published online 28 October 2013.

Dimsdale and co-authors present data on the reliability, validity, and prevalence of the new DSM 5 category “Somatic Symptom disorder” (SSD) defined by persistent somatic symptoms in conjunction with…

http://www.jpsychores.com/inpress

http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(13)00349-8/fulltext

Correspondence

Diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder requires clinical judgment

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.09.009

Joel E. Dimsdale

Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, United States
[Ed: DSM-5 SSD Work Group Chair]

James Levenson

Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
[Ed: DSM-5 SSD Work Group Member]

In Press Corrected Proof Received 27 September 2013; accepted 27 September 2013. published online 01 November 2013.

The diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder (SSD) rests on the presence of 3 factors—1. distressing and impairing somatic symptoms, 2. that are persistent at least 6 months, and 3. that are associated…

http://www.jpsychores.com/inpress

http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(13)00378-4/fulltext

Correspondence

A commentary on: Somatic symptom disorder: An important change in DSM

DOI:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.10.012

Winfried Rief

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Available online 1 November 2013

The songs of praise about DSM-5 and its innovations are disseminated through the media, and consequently, a positive evaluation of the new category of somatic symptom and associated disorders was published…

http://www.jpsychores.com/inpress

http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(13)00393-0/fulltext

Correspondence

Tradeoffs between validity and utility in the diagnosis of Somatic Symptom Disorder

DOI:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.10.015

Joel E. Dimsdale

Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, United States
[Ed: DSM-5 SSD Work Group Chair]

James Levenson

Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
[Ed: DSM-5 SSD Work Group Member]

Available online 31 October 2013

We appreciate the opportunity of responding to Professor Rief’s thoughtful letter concerning the thinking that guided our workgroup’s proposals for Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD). When we started out…

in response to paper:

http://tinyurl.com/SSDPDFresearchgate [Download Free PDF from link on right of webpage.]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23972410

Somatic Symptom Disorder: An important change in DSM.

Dimsdale JE, Creed F, Escobar J, Sharpe M, Wulsin L, Barsky A, Lee S, Irwin MR, Levenson J.

J Psychosom Res. 2013 Sep;75(3):223-8. Epub 2013 Jul 25.

Abstract: http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(13)00265-1/abstract [Free]

Full text: http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(13)00265-1/fulltext

References: http://www.jpsychores.com/article/PIIS0022399913002651/references


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Commentaries on Somatic Symptom Disorder published in 2013 journal papers

In the June 2013 edition of Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, Allen Frances, MD, who chaired the Task Force for DSM-IV, discusses his concerns for the loosely defined DSM-5 category, Somatic Symptom Disorder, sets out his suggestions for revising the criteria prior to finalization, as presented to the SSD Work Group chair, in December 2012, and advises clinicians against using the new SSD diagnosis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23719325

DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder.

Frances A.

Department of Psychiatry, Duke University, Durham, NC.

J Nerv Ment Dis. 2013 Jun;201(6):530-1. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318294827c. No abstract available.

PMID: 23719325

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Commentary by Allen Frances, MD, and Suzy Chapman in the May 2012 issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. The paper discusses the over-inclusive DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder criteria and the potential implications for diverse patient groups. The paper concludes by advising clinicians not to use the new SSD diagnosis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23653063

DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder mislabels medical illness as mental disorder.

Allen Frances¹, Suzy Chapman²

1 Department of Psychiatry, Duke University 2 DxRevisionWatch.com

Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2013 May;47(5):483-4. doi: 10.1177/0004867413484525. No abstract available.

PMID: 23653063

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The April 22, 2013 edition of Current Biology published a feature article on DSM-5 by science writer, Michael Gross, Ph.D. The article includes quotes from Allen Frances, MD, and Suzy Chapman on potential implications for patients for the application of the new DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder. The article includes concerns for the influence of Somatic Symptom Disorder on proposals for a new ICD category – Bodily Distress Disorder – being field tested for ICD-11.

Current Biology 22 April, 2013 Volume 23, Issue 8

Copyright 2013 All rights reserved. Current Biology, Volume  23, Issue  8, R295-R298, 22 April 2013

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.009

Feature

Has the manual gone mental?

Michael Gross

Full text: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(13)00417-X

PDF: http://download.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/PIIS096098221300417X.pdf

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In a BMJ opinion piece, published March 2013, Allen Frances, MD, opposes the new Somatic Symptom Disorder, discusses lack of specificity, data from the field trials, and advises clinicians to ignore this new category.

PDF for full text

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23511949

The new somatic symptom disorder in DSM-5 risks mislabeling many people as mentally ill.

Frances A.

Allen Frances, chair of the DSM-IV task force

BMJ. 2013 Mar 18;346:f1580. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f1580. No abstract available.

PMID: 23511949

[PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

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Somatic Symptom Disorder is also included in Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life (pp. 193-6): Allen Frances, William Morrow & Company (May 2013).

Also Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Responding to the Challenge of DSM-5 (Chapter 16): Allen Frances, Guilford Press (June 2013).

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Further reading

Objection to proposal to insert DSM-5′s Somatic symptom disorder into ICD-10-CM Suzy Chapman, Public submission, ICD-9-CM/PCS Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting September 18-19, 2013

APA Somatic Symptom Disorder Fact Sheet APA DSM-5 Resources

Somatic Chapter Drops Centrality Of Unexplained Medical Symptoms Psychiatric News, Mark Moran, March 1, 2013

Somatic Symptoms Criteria in DSM-5 Improve Diagnosis, Care David J Kupfer, MD, Chair, DSM-5 Task Force, defends the SSD construct, Huffington Post, February 8, 2013

The new somatic symptom disorder in DSM-5 risks mislabeling many people as mentally ill Allen Frances, MD, BMJ 2013;346:f1580 BMJ Press Release PDF for full text

Somatic Symptom Disorder could capture millions more under mental health diagnosis Suzy Chapman, May 26, 2012

Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder Allen Frances, MD, Psychology Today, DSM 5 in Distress, December 8, 2012

Why Did DSM 5 Botch Somatic Symptom Disorder? Allen Frances, MD, Psychology Today, Saving Normal, February 6, 2013

New Psych Disorder Could Mislabel Sick as Mentally Ill Susan Donaldson James, ABC News, February 27, 2013

Dimsdale JE. Medically unexplained symptoms: a treacherous foundation for somatoform disorders? Psychiatr Clin North Am 2011;34:511-3. [PMID: 21889675]

Which new DSM-5 disorders proposed for inserting into ICD-10-CM are already added to the ICD-11 Beta draft?

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Update to ICD-11 Beta draft at February 3, 2014:

Since my update on January 3, in the ICD-11 Beta draft, Hypochondriasis (illness anxiety disorder) has since been reverted to Hypochondriasis with illness anxiety disorder listed, instead, as an Inclusion term to Hypochondriasis.

Hypochondriasis was subsequently assigned to three parents:

Bodily distress disorders, and psychological and behavioural factors associated with disorders or diseases classified elsewhere; Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders;
Anxiety and fear-related disorders;

At February 3, Hypochondriasis has been removed from parent Bodily distress disorders and is currently assigned dual parentage under:

Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders;
Anxiety and fear-related disorders

Foundation View:

hppt://apps.who.int/classifications/icd11/browse/f/en#/http%3a%2f%2fid.who.int%2ficd%2fentity%2f675329566

Joint Linearization for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics View:

http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd11/browse/l-m/en#/http%3a%2f%2fid.who.int%2ficd%2fentity%2f675329566

The Definition for Hypochondriasis currently displaying in the Beta draft appears to be the legacy Definition, unrevised from ICD-10.

Update to ICD-11 Beta draft at January 3, 2014:

Revision to ICD-11 Beta draft: In the report below, I stated:

ICD-11 public version Beta draft: Illness anxiety disorder is proposed to be dual coded as Hypochondriasis (illness anxiety disorder) under primary parent, Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders and also coded under Bodily distress disorders, and psychological and behavioural factors associated with disorders or diseases classified elsewhere and assigned a unique code.

As the ICD-11 Beta drafting platform now stands, at January 3, 2014, the DSM-5 term “(illness anxiety disorder)” has been removed from the “Hypochondriasis (illness anxiety disorder)” disorder name and the term reverted to Hypochondriasis.

The term “illness anxiety disorder” is now displaying as listed under “Synonyms” to Hypochondriasis in the ICD-11 Beta Foundation View, and listed under “All Index Terms” in the Morbidity Linearization View.

As previously posted on November 6, 2013:

In the previous four posts, I have documented the September 18-19, 2013 meeting of the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee and reported on American Psychiatric Association (APA) proposals for inserting a number of new DSM-5 terms into the forthcoming US specific ICD-10-CM.

I also set out how public and professional stakeholders can submit comment or objections on any of the proposals requested at this meeting before the November 15 deadline.

At the September meeting, Darrel Regier, MD, APA Director of Research, presented six diagnoses that are new to DSM-5 for inclusion within ICD-10-CM, with proposals for assigning unique new codes to these disorders for October 2015 [1].

Some of the DSM-5 disorders, below, presented for consideration for inclusion in ICD-10-CM are already entered into the ICD-11 Beta drafting platform and in some cases, entered into the draft over a year or more ago.*

*Caveat: The ICD-11 Beta draft is not approved by WHO or WHA. The Beta draft is a work in progress over the next two to three years. The Beta draft is updated on a daily basis: parent terms, category terms, sorting codes and descriptive content are subject to change as chapter reorganization progresses. This post reflects the Beta draft as it stood on November 6, 2013. ICD-11 Beta Draft Caveats

Binge eating disorder (BED)

(Rationale: Page 32, Diagnosis Agenda: Page 6, Diagnosis Presentations Summary)

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2014: add Binge eating disorder (BED) as an inclusion term to F50.8 Other eating disorders.

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2015: that a unique new code is created for F50.81 Binge eating disorder.

ICD-11 public version Beta draft: Binge eating disorder currently proposed to be coded under Feeding and eating disorders and assigned a unique ICD-11 code. No ICD-11 Definition or other “Content Model” descriptive parameters have yet been populated for Binge eating disorder.

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Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescence and Adulthood

(Rationale: Page 34, Page 6, Diagnosis Presentations Summary)

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2014: that ICD-10-CM change the code for Gender identity disorder in adolescents and adulthood to F64.0 and that “gender dysphoria in adolescents and adults” is added as an inclusion term for this entry.

ICD10CM5

Source: September 2013 Diagnosis Agenda, Page 34

[See Page 34 of Diagnosis Agenda for discussion of proposed coding changes.]

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Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD)

(Rationale: Page 35, Diagnosis Agenda; Page 6, Diagnosis Presentations Summary)

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2014: add Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) as an inclusion term under F34.8: Other persistent mood [affective] disorders.

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2015: that unique new codes are created at F34.81 Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder and F34.89 Other specified persistent mood disorders.

ICD-11 public version Beta draft: Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) is not currently listed.

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Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

(Rationale: Page 37, Diagnosis Agenda; Page 6, Diagnosis Presentations Summary)

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2014: add Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as an inclusion term under F80.89 Other developmental disorders of speech and language.

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2015: that a unique new code is created at F80.82 Social pragmatic communication disorder.

Excludes1: Asperger’s syndrome (F84.5)

Autistic disorder (F84.0)

ICD-11 public version Beta draft: Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder is not currently listed.

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Hoarding disorder

(Rationale: Page 39, Diagnosis Agenda; Page 7, Diagnosis Presentations Summary)

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2014: add Hoarding disorder as an inclusion term to F42 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2015: that a unique new code is created at F42 for F42.2 for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and F42.3 for Hoarding Disorder in future revisions. (Ms. Pickett stated that new code proposal starting at F42.2 is due to F42.0 and F42.1 deactivation by WHO.)

F42 Obsessive compulsive disorder

New code F42.2 Mixed obsessional thoughts and acts
New code F42.3 Hoarding disorder
New code F42.8 Other obsessive compulsive disorder
New code F42.9 Obsessive-compulsive disorder, unspecified

ICD-11 public version Beta draft: Hoarding disorder currently proposed to be coded under parent Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders and assigned a unique code. No ICD-11 Definition or other “Content Model” descriptive parameters have yet been populated for Hoarding disorder.

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Excoriation (skin picking) disorder

(APA Rationale: Page 41, Diagnosis Agenda, Page 7, Diagnosis Presentations Summary)

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2014: add Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder as an inclusion term to L98.1 Factitial dermatitis (Dermatology section).

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2015: that a unique new code is created at F42 for F42.4 Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder.

Excludes1: Factitial dermatitis (L98.1)

Other specified behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in early childhood and adolescence (F98.8)

ICD-11 public version Beta draft: Excoriation disorder (skin-picking disorder) currently proposed to be coded under Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders under parent Body-focused repetitive behaviour disorders and assigned a unique code. No ICD-11 Definition or other “Content Model” descriptive parameters have yet been populated for Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder.

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Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)

(APA Rationale: Page 43, Diagnosis Agenda; Page 7, Diagnosis Presentations Summary)

APA considers that placing PMDD outside the recurrent depressive disorder category is less than optimal for differentiating it from ICD-10-CM N94.3 Premenstrual Tension Syndrome, which is generally less severe than PMDD, and does not require psychiatric treatment. If an alternative code in the F32 series is possible, APA would prefer to modify the code in that section in future revisions.

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2014: add Premenstrual dysphoric disorder as an inclusion term to N94.3 Premenstrual tension syndrome (Chapter 15 Diseases of the genitourinary system).

Proposal for ICD-10-CM for October 1, 2015: that a unique new code is created under Chapter 5 F32.8 Other depressive episodes.

New code F32.81 Premenstrual dysphoric disorder

Excludes1: premenstrual tension syndrome (N94.3)

ICD-11 public version Beta draft: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) currently proposed to be dual coded under Chapter 15 Diseases of the genitourinary system > Premenstrual tension syndrome and also coded under Chapter 5 Depressive disorders and assigned a unique code. A draft ICD-11 Definition has been populated for PMDD but no other ICD-11 “Content Model” descriptive parameters have been populated.

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Somatic symptom disorder and Illness anxiety disorder

ICD10CM 4

Source: September 2013 Diagnosis Agenda, Page 45

Somatic symptom disorder:

(No rationale provided: Page 45, Diagnosis Agenda) Requester unspecified

Proposal for ICD-10-CM: add Somatic symptom disorder under F45 Somatoform Disorders as inclusion term to F45.1 Undifferentiated somatoform disorder.

ICD-11 public version Beta draft: There is no Somatic symptom disorder in the ICD-11 Beta draft either as a unique new ICD-11 entity code or as an inclusion term or Synonym to an existing ICD-11 code.

For ICD-11 Core version: the current proposal for the F45 Somatoform disorders is for a proposed new construct, Bodily distress disorder, to replace a number of existing ICD-10 categories under Bodily distress disorders, and psychological and behavioural factors associated with disorders or diseases classified elsewhere. Two specifiers: Bodily distress disorder and Severe Bodily distress disorder have yet to be defined or characterized within the Beta draft and no “Content Model” parameters have yet been populated. ICD-11 plans to field test this proposed new ICD-11 construct.

The Definition for Bodily distress disorders, and psychological and behavioural factors associated with disorders or diseases classified elsewhere currently displaying in the Beta draft appears to be the legacy Somatoform disorders Definition imported from ICD-10 and does not reflect any proposed structural reorganization or construct revision for the ICD Somatoform disorders categories.

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Illness anxiety disorder

(No rationale provided: Page 45, Diagnosis Agenda) Requester unspecified

Proposal for ICD-10-CM: add Illness anxiety disorder under F45 Somatoform disorders as inclusion term to F45.21 Hypochondriasis.

ICD-11 public version Beta draft: Illness anxiety disorder is proposed to be dual coded as Hypochondriasis (illness anxiety disorder) under primary parent, Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders and also coded under Bodily distress disorders, and psychological and behavioural factors associated with disorders or diseases classified elsewhere and assigned a unique code.

The Definition for Hypochondriasis (illness anxiety disorder) currently displaying in the Beta draft appears to be the legacy Definition imported from ICD-10 and does not reflect any proposed structural reorganization or construct revision for the ICD Somatoform disorders categories.

Submitting comments

If you have comments or objections to any of the proposals requested at the September ICD-9-CM C & M Committee meeting, the deadline for submissions is November 15, by email, to Donna Pickett: nchsicd9CM@cdc.gov

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References for key documents:

1. Article: ICD Codes for Some DSM-5 Diagnoses Updated, Mark Moran, Psychiatric News, October 07, 2013:
http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleID=1750103

2. ICD-9-CM/PCS Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting September 18-19, 2013:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd9cm_maintenance.htm#public_meetings

September meeting Proposals [PDF – 342 KB]
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/icd_topic_packet_sept_181913.pdf

September meeting Summary of Diagnosis Presentations PDF file [PDF – 347 KB]:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/icd_summary_sept_181913.pdf

3. ICD-9-CM/PCS Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting Sept 18-19, 2013 meeting materials and four YouTubes of proceedings:
http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/ICD-9-CM-C-and-M-Meeting-Materials-Items/2013-09-18-MeetingMaterials.html

4. September 19, 2013 Meeting Day Two: ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting Part 4 videocast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pYdKyr_NE

5. ICD-11 Beta drafting platform (public version):
http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd11/browse/f/en

September ’13 meeting Summary document posted: ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee

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The Summary of Diagnosis Presentations for the September 2013 meeting of the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee has now been posted on the CDC website.

Deadline for receipt of public comments: November 15, 2013

Comments on the proposals presented at the September meeting should be sent to this email address: nchsicd9CM@cdc.gov

The Summary document and Diagnosis Agenda document can be downloaded here:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd9cm_maintenance.htm

Summary and Proposals

September 18-19, 2013

Summary Adobe PDF file [PDF – 93 KB] Click link for PDF document   Summary Sept 18-19 2013

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/icd_summary_sept_181913.pdf

Proposals Adobe PDF file [PDF – 347 KB] Click link for PDF document   Topic packet Sept 18-19 2013

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/icd_topic_packet_sept_181913.pdf

According to the instructions for requesters, proposals for a new code should include:

• Description of the code(s)/change(s) being requested

• Rationale for why the new code/change is needed (including clinical relevancy)

• Supporting clinical references and literature should also be submitted.

Proposals should be consistent with the structure and conventions of the classification.

For the proposals to insert Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) and Illness anxiety disorder into ICD-10-CM as inclusion terms under existing F45 Somatoform disorders codes (as listed on Page 45 of the Diagnostic Agenda/Proposals document), no descriptions, no rationales and no supporting clinical references and literature were set out in the Diagnostic Agenda/Proposals document nor presented at the September meeting.

The requesters for each of these additional 17 insertions/changes listed under “Additional Tabular List Inclusion Terms for ICD-10-CM” remain unclear.

If you have comments or objections to the proposed insertion of Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) or in relation to any of the proposals requested via the September ICD-9-CM C & M Committee meeting, please have your submissions in, via email, to Donna Pickett nchsicd9CM@cdc.gov by November 15.

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Related posts:

Keep SSD out of ICD-10-CM – November 15 deadline for objections: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3vK

Videos and meeting materials: September 18–19 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3tV

APA petitions CMS for additions to ICD-10-CM: Deadline for public comment and objections November 15: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3tq

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References for key documents and screenshots:

1. Article: ICD Codes for Some DSM-5 Diagnoses Updated, Mark Moran, Psychiatric News, October 07, 2013:
http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleID=1757346

2. ICD-9-CM/PCS Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting September 18-19, 2013:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd9cm_maintenance.htm

September meeting Proposals document [PDF – 342 KB]:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/icd_topic_packet_sept_181913.pdf

3. ICD-9-CM/PCS Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting Sept 18-19, 2013 meeting materials and four YouTubes of proceedings:
http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/ICD-9-CM-C-and-M-Meeting-Materials-Items/2013-09-18-MeetingMaterials.html

4. YouTube Videos from September 18, 2013 Meeting Day One

ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting (Morning Session) Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3DmV88Dmc

ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting (Morning Session) Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAE190sM5AQ

ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting (Afternoon Session) Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQOFadq2x6U

September 19, 2013 Meeting Day Two

ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pYdKyr_NE

Keep SSD out of ICD-10-CM – November 15 deadline for objections

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Update: My submission on behalf of Dx Revision Watch can be read here.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has proposed the following DSM-5 disorders for inclusion in the forthcoming ICD-10-CM (Pages 32-44, September 2013 Diagnosis Agenda):

Binge eating disorder (BED);
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD);
Social (pragmatic) communication disorder;
Hoarding disorder;
Excoriation (skin picking) disorder;
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)

Additionally, APA has petitioned for revisions to the ICD-10-CM listing for gender dysphoria in adolescents and adults, which is not a new disorder.

On Page 45 and 46 of the Agenda, under Additional Tabular List Inclusion Terms for ICD-10-CM a number of other additions and changes to specific Chapter 5 F codes are being proposed, including the insertion of Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) and Illness anxiety disorder.

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A final reminder of the deadline for comments and objections in relation to Somatic symptom disorder

Q: When do objections need to be in by and where should they be sent?

A: Submit objections via email by November 15 to Donna Pickett, CDC: nchsicd9CM@cdc.gov

Q: Can anyone submit objections?

A: Yes. And from as many patient, professional and advocacy groups as possible, particularly from the U.S. but also international objections. Although this concerns potential changes to the draft of the U.S. specific ICD-10-CM there may be implications for ICD-11.

Q: What is being proposed?

A: The American Psychiatric Association has requested 6 new DSM-5 disorders for consideration for inclusion in the forthcoming ICD-10-CM via the September 18-19, 2013 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting.

APA’s rationales for these requested additions, the coding proposals and timings are set out on Pages 32 thru 44 of the September meeting Diagnosis Agenda.

But on Pages 45-46, under “Additional Tabular List Inclusion Terms for ICD-10-CM”, a further 17 proposals and changes are listed for consideration for addition to the Mental and behavioral disorders F codes.

These include the addition of the new DSM-5 categories, Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) and Illness anxiety disorder, as inclusion terms, under the ICD-10-CM Somatoform disorders section, thus:

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Source: September 2013 Diagnosis Agenda, Page 45

The Diagnosis Agenda can be downloaded here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/icd_topic_packet_sept_181913.pdf

Q: Is “Somatic symptom disorder” being proposed to replace several existing ICD-10-CM Somatoform disorders categories and is a unique new code proposed to be assigned to SSD?

A: No, not in the proposal as it stands in the Diagnosis Agenda document.

The proposal is to add SSD as an inclusion term under F45.1 Undifferentiated somatoform disorder. This is the ICD-10-CM code to which SSD is cross-walked in the DSM-5.

Illness anxiety disorder is being proposed as an inclusion term under F45.21 Hypochondriasis. This is the ICD-10-CM code to which Illness anxiety disorder is cross-walked in the DSM-5.

Q: What should I include in my objection?

A: Responders are being asked by NCHS/CMS to consider the following: Whether you agree with a proposal, disagree (and why), or have an alternative proposal to suggest.

Responders are also being asked to comment on the timing of those proposals that are being requested for approval for October 2014: Does a specific proposal for a new or changed Index entry and Tabular List entry meet the criteria for consideration for implementation during a partial code freeze [6] or should consideration for approval be deferred to October 2015?

And separately, and where applicable, comment on the creation of a specific new code for the condition effective from October 1, 2015. (This is not applicable in the case of SSD or Illness anxiety disorder.)

• Since no timing has been specified for the proposed insertion of the requests on Pages 45-46, I suggest stating that as a poorly validated disorder construct, SSD does not meet NCHS/CMS criteria for “new diseases/new technology procedures, and any minor revisions to correct reported errors in these classifications” and should not be considered for approval during a partial code freeze.

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On Day Two of the meeting, APA’s Darrel Regier presented 7 proposals for additions or changes, discussed APA’s rationales for each of these requests, in turn, and fielded any resulting questions or comments from the floor or from the meeting chairpersons.

Rationales, references, specific coding proposals for addition as inclusion terms in October 2014 (and subsequent code modifications in those cases where a unique new ICD code is proposed to be created for the term effective from October 2015) are also set out in the Agenda document (from Page 32).

But there was no presentation on behalf of APA, or by representatives of NCHS or CMS, or by anyone else for the specific proposal to add Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) and Illness anxiety disorder as inclusion terms under the ICD-10-CM Somatoform disorders.

No rationales for their inclusion or references to scientific evidence to support the validity of these new DSM-5 constructs have been published in the Diagnosis Agenda and there was no discussion of these two proposals during the course of the meeting.

The requesters of the proposals set out on Pages 45-46 are not identified, so it is unclear whether these “Additional Tabular List Inclusion Terms” are being proposed by APA or by NCHS/CMS.

• I suggest you comment in submissions on the absence from both the Agenda document and the meeting presentations of rationales and references to enable proper public scrutiny, consideration and informed responses to the proposed inclusion of these two terms.

All that was said about the list of proposals on Pages 45-46 was the following, after Dr Regier had wrapped up his own presentation and handed the podium back to the Co-Chair:

[Unofficial transcription from videocast] Donna Pickett (CDC):

“…And just to complete the package, there are other Tabular List proposals that appear on Page 45 and 46 that we would also invite your comments on. And again, with some of the terminology changes that Dr Regier has described the intent here is to make sure that if those terms are being used, that they do have a home somewhere within ICD-10-CM to facilitate people looking these up. So we invite comments. We’re showing the Tabular List proposed changes; however, there obviously would be associated Alphabetic Index changes with that which we didn’t show just to keep the package a little bit smaller.”

• You might also consider quoting the APA’s disturbing DSM-5 field trial data (see March 2013 BMJ commentary by Prof Allen Frances for data).

• Or quote the SSD work group’s recognition of the shaky foundations and lack of scientific robustness for its new DSM-5 construct:

In its recent paper: Somatic Symptom Disorder: An important change in DSM, the SSD work group acknowledges the “small amount of validity data concerning SSD” and that much “remains to be determined” about the utility and reliability of the specific SSD criteria and its thresholds when applied in busy, general clinical practice, and there are “vital questions that must be answered.” [7]

• There is no body of published research on the epidemiology, clinical characteristics or treatment of the APA’s Somatic symptom disorder construct.

• There is a paucity of rigorous evidence for the validity, safety, reliability, acceptability and utility of the SSD construct when applied to adults and children in diverse clinical settings and across a spectrum of health and allied professionals.

• NCHS/CMS has insufficient scientific basis for the approval of SSD as a valid new disorder construct for inclusion within ICD; has published no independent field trial data and provided no rationale to inform public responses.

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Why is it important to submit objections?

If SSD is inserted as an inclusion term to an existing code in ICD-10-CM this may leverage the future replacement of several existing ICD-10-CM Somatoform disorders categories with the SSD construct, to more closely mirror DSM-5.

Inserting SSD as an inclusion term into ICD-10-CM may make it easier for ICD-11 to justify its proposal for a Bodily distress disorder to replace several existing ICD-10 Somatoform disorders categories. Though BDD may not mirror SSD exactly, it is anticipated to incorporate SSD’s characteristics and thereby facilitate harmonization between ICD-11 and DSM-5 disorder terminology.

As set out many times during the three DSM-5 stakeholder reviews and in several papers published earlier this year with Prof Allen Frances, DSM-5 SSD has highly subjective and loose, easily met criteria.

A mental health diagnosis of SSD can be applied as a “bolt-on” to any chronic medical diagnosis – to patients with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, MS, angina, ME and CFS, IBS, FM, chronic pain conditions. It can be applied to adults and children (or to the caregivers of children with chronic illnesses).

SSD may become the dustbin diagnosis into which those with persistent, “medically unexplained” somatic (bodily) symptoms will be shovelled. Patients with rare or hard to diagnose illnesses may find themselves mislabelled with SSD.

Implications for the potential impact on patients for an additional diagnosis of SSD are set out (about half way down the page) in my report Somatic Symptom Disorder could capture millions more under mental health diagnosis and in copies of submissions to the three DSM-5 stakeholder review periods, collated on this site.

Also in Mary Dimmock’s 2012 SSD Call to Action materials.

There is a now a copy of the 20 March, 2013 BMJ commentary “The new somatic symptom disorder in DSM-5 risks mislabeling many people as mentally ill” by Prof Allen Frances (with Suzy Chapman) on the NAPPS Skills (Northern Association for Persistent Physical Symptoms) site (Vincent Deary’s group) in this PDF.

If you’ve not already done so, please get an objection in before November 15.

And please alert all contacts, advocates, patient groups and professionals to the November 15 deadline and the need for input and objections.

Further information:

1 Crazy Like Us: How the U.S. Exports Its Models of Illness – DSM-5 is Americanizing the world’s understanding of the mind Christopher Lane, Ph.D. in Side Effects, October 9, 2013

2. Dx Revision Watch: APA petitions CMS for additions to ICD-10-CM: Deadline for public comment and objections November 15: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3tq

3. Dx Revision Watch: Videos and meeting materials: September 18- 19 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3tV

4. Article: ICD Codes for Some DSM-5 Diagnoses Updated, Mark Moran, Psychiatric News, October 07, 2013:

http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleID=1757346

5. ICD-9-CM/PCS Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting September 18-19, 2013

September C & M meeting Diagnosis Agenda Proposals PDF document [PDF – 342 KB]

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/icd_topic_packet_sept_181913.pdf

6. Partial Freeze of Revisions to ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS

7. Somatic Symptom Disorder: An important change in DSM. Dimsdale JE, Creed F, Escobar J, Sharpe M, Wulsin L, Barsky A, Lee S, Irwin MR, Levenson J. J Psychosom Res. 2013 Sep;75(3):223-8. Epub 2013 Jul 25.

Videos and meeting materials: September 18–19 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting

Post #277 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3tV

Update: Crazy Like Us: How the U.S. Exports Its Models of Illness – DSM-5 is Americanizing the world’s understanding of the mind by Christopher Lane, Ph.D. in Side Effects, October 9, 2013

This report relates to proposals submitted via the September ICD-9-CM/PCS Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting for the inclusion of additional codes to the forthcoming US specific ICD-10-CM.

The twice yearly ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meetings provide a public forum to discuss proposed code changes to ICD-9-CM and the ICD-10-CM/PCS. Next year, the committee, which is co-chaired by CMS and CDC, will be renamed to the ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee.

ICD-10-CM/PCS is scheduled for implementation in October 2014 and currently subject to partial code freeze.

The meeting scheduled on September 18, 2013 was devoted to both diagnosis and procedure code topics. The second day of the meeting, September 19, continued discussions related to diagnosis code topics.

Below are links for key meeting materials, four videocasts, and agenda item listings for the diagnosis proposals presented on Day Two (videocast Part 4). This includes the presentation of proposals by American Psychiatric Association (APA) Director of Research, Darrel Regier, MD, for insertion of new DSM-5 diagnoses into the ICD-10-CM.

Meeting materials:

From CDC website: ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee webpage:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd9cm_maintenance.htm

September 18-19, 2013 meeting Proposals (Timeline, Agenda for Diagnosis Proposals) [PDF – 342 KB]

From CMS.gov website:

September 18-19, 2013 meeting materials page

September 18, 2013 Agenda (Timeline, Agenda for ICD-10-PCS Topics, Procedure presentations) [PDF, 326KB]

September 18, 2013 Meeting Materials [ZIP, 4MB]

Download Zip file from CMS.gov meeting materials page | 4MB Zip file unpacks to:

PDF Presenter Slides: Cerapedics ICD-9 9 18 2013 FINAL [712KB]

PDF Presenter Slides: Respicardia ICD-9 Sept 18 FINAL [670KB]

PDF CMS/CDC Meeting Slides: September-ICD9CM-slides [3033KB]

PDF Text version of CMS/CDC Meeting slides: 508-Compliant-Version-of-September-ICD9CM-slides [282KB]

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Videocasts for September 18, 2013 | Day One

Pat Brooks (CMS) Co-Chairperson
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM ICD-10-PCS Procedure presentations with public comment
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch break
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Diagnosis presentations with public comment

Part 1 1:43 hours duration

Procedure presentations with public comment


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Part 2 1:27 hours duration

Procedure presentations with public comment


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Part 3 59 minutes duration

Diagnosis presentations with public comment

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Videocast for September 19, 2013 | Day Two

Donna Pickett (CDC) Co-Chairperson
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Part 4 1:42 hours duration

Diagnosis presentations with public comment

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Diagnosis proposals

4:58 mins in: Presenter Lizabeth (Beth) Fisher (CDC) [on behalf of requestor: The American Society of Anesthesiologists]

Page 47 Diagnosis Agenda: Unintended awareness under general anesthesia

Comment from floor: Robert Adams reads out written statement.

13:56 mins in: DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM Discussions on mental health conditions and harmonization with ICD-10-CM.

Presenter: Darrel Regier, MD (Director of Research, APA; served as DSM-5 Task Force Vice-Chair)

Preamble about DSM and DSM-5.

Page 32 Diagnosis Agenda: Binge eating disorder

No questions or comments from the floor or by phone link.

29 mins in: Page 34 Diagnosis Agenda: Gender identity disorder in adolescence and adulthood

No questions or comments from the floor or by phone link.

37 mins in: Page 35 Diagnosis Agenda: Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD)

No questions or comments from the floor or by phone link.

45 mins in: Page 37 Diagnosis Agenda: Social (pragmatic) communication disorder

No questions or comments from the floor or by phone link.

54 mins in: Page 39 Diagnosis Agenda: Hoarding disorder

No questions or comments from the floor or by phone link.

1hr:1 min in: Page 41 Diagnosis Agenda: Excoriation (skin picking) disorder

Some questions raised by DP on behalf of other and comment from the floor.

1hr:14 mins in: Page 43 Diagnosis Agenda: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)

Question raised by DP regarding PMDD and Excludes.
No questions or comments from the floor or by phone link.

Dr Regier concludes his presentation and hands podium back to Donna Pickett (CDC).

1hr:22 mins in: Page 45-46 Diagnosis Agenda: Additional Tabular List Inclusion Terms for ICD-10-CM

See screenshots at end of Post #276 for Diagnosis Agenda Pages 45-46.

[Unofficial transcription from videocast]

Donna Pickett (CDC): “…And just to complete the package, there are other Tabular List proposals that appear on Page 45 and 46 that we would also invite your comments on. And again, with some of the terminology changes that Dr Regier has described the intent here is to make sure that if those terms are being used, that they do have a home somewhere within ICD-10-CM to facilitate people looking these up. So we invite comments. We’re showing the Tabular List proposed changes; however, there obviously would be associated Alphabetic Index changes with that which we didn’t show just to keep the package a little bit smaller…”

No questions or comments from the floor or by phone link on any of the proposed inclusion terms listed on Pages 45 and 46 under “Additional Tabular List Inclusion Terms for ICD-10-CM”.

Donna Picket moves on to next set of proposals and turns podium over to Beth Fisher (CDC).

1hr:23 mins in: Page 49 Diagnosis Agenda: Intracranial injury (TBI)

Comment from floor at 1hr:32 mins: Luana Ciccarelli from the American Academy of Neurology. Comment from Sue Bowman read out by Beth Fisher.

1hr:34 mins in: Page 53 Diagnosis Agenda: Placenta Previa vs Low Lying Placenta

Presenter Lizabeth (Beth) Fisher (CDC) on behalf of requestor: The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).

No questions or comments from the floor or by phone link.

This concluded the diagnosis portion of the presentations.

Note that Agenda items from Page 53 onwards were tabled for presentation and discussion in earlier in the meeting proceedings.

1hr:40 mins in: Donna Pickett (CDC) brings meeting to a close.

[Unofficial transcription from videocast]

Donna Pickett (CDC): “…November 15…is in the Topic Package for receipt of comments on all of the proposals. That is the deadline, but we’d love to have them sooner as this does have implications in terms of what does become part of an addenda or not, and that would be specific to the inclusion terms in the Tabular List and Alphabetical Index because, again, unless the proposal meets the criteria established for the partial freeze, no new codes are being entertained except for the ones that were requested. We invite your comments on that as well…”

Submitting public comment:

The deadline for receipt of public and professional stakeholder comment on any of the proposed ICD-10-CM/PCS code revisions discussed at the September 18-19, 2013 ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting is November 15.

Comments should be sent to the following dedicated NCHS/CMS email addresses:

Procedure comments by email to Pat Brooks, CMS: patricia.brooks2@cms.hss.gov

Diagnosis comments by email to Donna Pickett, CDC: nchsicd9CM@cdc.gov

(Full contact details for submission of written comments/objections to NCHS/CMS on Page 8 of the Proposals/Diagnosis Agenda PDF. Electronic submissions are much preferred in order to ensure timely receipt.)