The Washington state Department of Labor and Industries is considering rules that would adopt the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which was released in 2013.
The department said in a notice of possible rulemaking that many federal and state health care purchasing agencies will use DSM-V for coding diagnoses for mental disorders as required by federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requirements. L&I said in the notice that it’s not required to follow HIPPA requirements, but does...
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