“Mental Patient Strapped to Chair” by Curious Expeditions
If you are in need of diagnostic codes 
from the DSM-IV or the ICD-9-CM, check out this handy little website at DoctorCodes.com. By entering the first part of a diagnosis, the site will give you the correct diagnostic code! Quick and sweet! Just make sure you are entering the correct diagnosis to begin with! [This tool is no longer available. Thanks to Jane Helmstead’s comment below pointing this out. A more useful resource here is the Free AMA Webcast on 2013 Changes in CPT Codes.]
Hi Tamara,
I was looking for your handy tool and came up with “nada.” After a further search, I came across this bit of information on About.com, “What are CPT codes.” Oct. 22, 2013.
“You won’t find a freely-available comprehensive list of CPT codes, because the AMA controls their publication. Groups that have tried to make them available for free to the public have been cited for violations, fined by the AMA and have been forced to remove them from the Internet. Since the AMA developed and copyrights the system, it has a right to make sure access to these lists is paid for. It licenses CPT code lists to groups who wish to publish the codes to make them available to others. Those groups then charge a fee for access, too.
We patients don’t have the large sums of money needed to subscribe to websites or purchase publications that list CPT codes. To make them more accessible to us, the AMA does provide on its website a means for looking up the individual CPT codes you might find on your doctor’s bills or EOBs (estimates of benefits).”
Am enjoying your plethora of contributions to various aspects of our business.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Jane
Hi, Jane! Thanks so much for sharing this explanation. I’ll be updating this post to reflect the same. However, the tool would have had dated info anyway since the code changed in January 2013. You might want to check out this Free AMA Webcast on 2013 Changes in CPT Codes. It’s the best of the free trainings that I’ve seen for mental health professionals.