Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. What is it? A primary user of ICD codes includes health care personnel, such as physicians and nurses, as well as medical coders, who assign ICDCM codes to verbatim or abstracted diagnosis or procedure information, and thus are originators of the ICD codes.
ICDCM codes are used for a variety of purposes, including statistics and for billing and claims reimbursement. Public health is largely a secondary user of coded data. Why change? Some noteworthy benefits include: Easier comparison of mortality and morbidity data Currently, the U. International Classification of Disease is a book of codes to determine the disease and diagnosis of the same.
The codes describe the particular disease and its diagnosis, which help insurers, patients, and doctors to understand the medical condition. These codes are understandable and accepted internationally.
It was developed by the World Health Organization WHO , and WHO is also responsible for monitoring and maintaining these books of codes as it owns the copyright of these books of codes. It has many versions. These codes are in the form of some alphanumeric codes that describe any disease, diagnosis, and cause of death. It is more complex and longer than the previous version. Similarly, the version of these codes gets regular updates that keep replacing the previous one.
Complete code lists electronic and hard copies are for purchase only. The website is designed to provide pricing information and not detailed code definitions, so the code descriptions are brief. Again, the descriptions are very brief and may not be specific enough for researchers needs. For additional information about codes used to bill Medicare for specific types of care, please see the Medicare Claims Processing Manual.
The manual lists which codes are used to bill each care type of interest. Consulting with a medical coder at your organization may be helpful as well as searching the literature through a website such as PubMed for examples of codes that others have used when studying a particular topic. Diagnosis and Procedure Coding Resources.
Purpose Providers that bill Medicare use codes for patient diagnoses and codes for care, equipment, and medications provided. The ICD-9 assigns a specific code to the diagnosis of the condition or disease being treated. This is a uniform method so that the third party, doctor and patients can understand what is being treated in the patient encounter.
The ICD-9 comes in three volumes. Volumes one and two are the same, except volume one is organized alphabetically, while volume two is organized by systems. Volume three deals with surgical codes and is not relevant to doctors of Oriental medicine.
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