Hi Frank, I have browsed the wonderful replies as well.... I should like to mention that if this is for development, go to the comercial souce where you have your hard copy, in the back is an order form for a flat file list as well as the cpt4 hcpcs lists. As a fellow health care economist, I found this to be helpful. In relation to SAS I removed the "." as most of my data is decimal removed; especially data that has been run through the Symmetry ETG grouper and comming from MCOs. Hope this helps. Aly

Frank Schiffel wrote in message ... >is there software available that translates ICD-9 procedures into some English equivalent? are there commercial sources? > >thanks. > >Frank Schiffel >Research Analyst III >Bureau of Health Care Performance Monitoring >State Center for Health Statistics >920 Wildwood Drive >PO Box 570 >Jefferson City Missouri 65102-0570 >(573) 751-6279 >FAX (573) 526-4102 > >visit our website at: http://www.health.state.mo.us/