The World Health Organization’s fully-electronic 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases contains 55,000 codes, compared to the 14,400 in ICD-10, Medscape reports. “We are working ...

Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients and ...

First Databank, a provider of drug knowledge for medication-related decisions and patient outcomes, accounted the release of ICD-10 procedure coding system within its MedKnowledge drug knowledge ...

asthma icd-10 codes The new ICD-10 coding system may seem inappropriate for some disease models, but asthma care may benefit from the required changes. The new ICD-10 codes are fully implemented, and ...

This is the training that coders will need in order to stay current with the ICD-10 transition. Since ICD-10 is formally divided into two separate and distinct code sets, identification of which code ...

Cardiovascular health Researchers sought to determine CV event occurrence in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and assess the accuracy of diagnosis by ICD code compared with ...

No two patients are the same. Furthermore, therapists know well that no two patients with dementia are ever the same. We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily ...

Earlier this year, payers and providers were scrambling to figure out how to transition from ICD-9 codes to the new ICD-10 system by the original deadline of October 1, 2013. Considering the amount of ...

Findings published in JAMA Network Open show ICD-10 codes perform poorly in capturing COVID-19-related symptoms, highlighting the critical need for meticulous data validation to feed multicenter ...

A new Twitter account by revenue cycle vendor MedData is giving perhaps the best visual representation of just how vast the new ICD-10 diagnostic coding library is. EveryICD10 has been sharing a new ...