I noticed the ICD-9 codes for asthma were removed from the NQF 0036 spec. Presumably this is because they don't actually identify "persistent" asthma. However, many of our customers don't yet collect ICD-10-CM or SNOMED-CT codes associated to diagnoses, so they will be reporting very low numbers which wouldn't necessarily be clinically accurate.

Any chance ICD-9 codes would be acceptable for this measure?

Perhaps not so much of an issue as general feedback...