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.