ICD-9 Code List in XML, CSV, or Database format [closed]

Question

I am looking for a complete list of ICD-9 Codes (Medical Codes) for Diseases and Procedures in a format that can be imported into a database and referenced programmatically. My question is basically exactly the same as Looking for resources for ICD-9 codes, but the original poster neglected to mention where exactly he "got ahold of" his complete list.

Google is definitely not my friend here as I have spent many hours googling the problem and have found many rich text type lists (such as the CDC) or websites where I can drill down to the complete list interactively, but I cannot find where to get the list that would populate these websites and can be parsed into a Database. I believe the files here ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Publications/ICD9-CM/2009/ have what I am looking for but the files are rich text format and contain a lot of garbage and formatting that would be difficult to remove accurately.

I know this has to have been done by others and I am trying to avoid duplicating other peoples effort but I just cannot find an xml/CSV/Excel list.

Answer 1

Centers for Medicaid & Medicare services provides excel files which contain just the codes and diagnosis, which can be imported directly into some SQL databases, sans conversion.

Zipped Excel files, by version number

(Update: New link based on comment below)

Answer 2

After removing the RTF it wasn't too hard to parse the file and turn it into a CSV. My resulting parsed files containing all 2009 ICD-9 codes for Diseases and Procedures are here: http://www.jacotay.com/files/Disease_and_ProcedureCodes_Parsed.zip My parser that I wrote is here: http://www.jacotay.com/files/RTFApp.zip Basically it is a two step process - take the files from the CDC FTP site, and remove the RTF from them, then select the RTF-free files and parse them into the CSV files. The code here is pretty rough because I only needed to get the results out once.

Here is the code for the parsing app in case the external links go down (back end to a form that lets you select a filename and click the buttons to make it go)

Public Class Form1  Private Sub btnBrowse_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnBrowse.Click     Dim p As New OpenFileDialog With {.CheckFileExists = True, .Multiselect = False}     Dim pResult = p.ShowDialog()     If pResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel OrElse pResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Abort Then         Exit Sub     End If     txtFileName.Text = p.FileName End Sub  Private Sub btnGo_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnGo.Click     Dim pFile = New IO.FileInfo(txtFileName.Text)     Dim FileText = IO.File.ReadAllText(pFile.FullName)     FileText = RemoveRTF(FileText)     IO.File.WriteAllText(Replace(pFile.FullName, pFile.Extension, "_fixed" & pFile.Extension), FileText)  End Sub   Function RemoveRTF(ByVal rtfText As String)     Dim rtBox As System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox = New System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox      '// Get the contents of the RTF file. Note that when it is     '// stored in the string, it is encoded as UTF-16.     rtBox.Rtf = rtfText     Dim plainText = rtBox.Text      Return plainText End Function   Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click     Dim pFile = New IO.FileInfo(txtFileName.Text)     Dim FileText = IO.File.ReadAllText(pFile.FullName)     Dim DestFileLine As String = ""     Dim DestFileText As New System.Text.StringBuilder      'Need to parse at lines with numbers, lines with all caps are thrown away until next number     FileText = Strings.Replace(FileText, vbCr, "")     Dim pFileLines = FileText.Split(vbLf)     Dim CurCode As String = ""     For Each pLine In pFileLines         If pLine.Length = 0 Then             Continue For         End If         pLine = pLine.Replace(ChrW(9), " ")         pLine = pLine.Trim          Dim NonCodeLine As Boolean = False         If IsNumeric(pLine.Substring(0, 1)) OrElse (pLine.Length > 3 AndAlso (pLine.Substring(0, 1) = "E" OrElse pLine.Substring(0, 1) = "V") AndAlso IsNumeric(pLine.Substring(1, 1))) Then             Dim SpacePos As Int32             SpacePos = InStr(pLine, " ")             Dim NewCode As String             NewCode = ""             If SpacePos >= 3 Then                 NewCode = Strings.Left(pLine, SpacePos - 1)             End If              If SpacePos < 3 OrElse Strings.Mid(pLine, SpacePos - 1, 1) = "." OrElse InStr(NewCode, "-") > 0 Then                 NonCodeLine = True             Else                 If CurCode <> "" Then                     DestFileLine = Strings.Replace(DestFileLine, ",", "&#44;")                     DestFileLine = Strings.Replace(DestFileLine, """", "&quot;").Trim                     DestFileText.AppendLine(CurCode & ",""" & DestFileLine & """")                     CurCode = ""                     DestFileLine = ""                 End If                  CurCode = NewCode                 DestFileLine = Strings.Mid(pLine, SpacePos + 1)             End If         Else             NonCodeLine = True         End If           If NonCodeLine = True AndAlso CurCode <> "" Then 'If we are not on a code keep going, otherwise check it             Dim pReg As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("[a-z]")             Dim pRegCaps As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("[A-Z]")             If pReg.IsMatch(pLine) OrElse pLine.Length <= 5 OrElse pRegCaps.IsMatch(pLine) = False OrElse (Strings.Left(pLine, 3) = "NOS" OrElse Strings.Left(pLine, 2) = "IQ") Then                 DestFileLine &= " " & pLine             Else 'Is all caps word                 DestFileLine = Strings.Replace(DestFileLine, ",", "&#44;")                 DestFileLine = Strings.Replace(DestFileLine, """", "&quot;").Trim                 DestFileText.AppendLine(CurCode & ",""" & DestFileLine & """")                 CurCode = ""                 DestFileLine = ""             End If         End If     Next      If CurCode <> "" Then         DestFileLine = Strings.Replace(DestFileLine, ",", "&#44;")         DestFileLine = Strings.Replace(DestFileLine, """", "&quot;").Trim         DestFileText.AppendLine(CurCode & ",""" & DestFileLine & """")         CurCode = ""         DestFileLine = ""     End If      IO.File.WriteAllText(Replace(pFile.FullName, pFile.Extension, "_parsed" & pFile.Extension), DestFileText.ToString) End Sub 

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