Among the many current changes in the healthcare industry is a transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes. One of the major changes of ICD-10 is an increase of specificity, as it has 68,000 codes compared ...

ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014, and will require health care organizations to switch from the soon-to-be outdated ICD-9. Srividya ...

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 ...

After more than 30 years, a key medical tracking system now lists Gulf War Illness as a formal diagnosis in international ...

Republican Texas Rep. Ted Poe resurrected the Cutting Costly Codes Act early last week, and issued a press release to match, thereby sparking the usual suspects into advocacy for ICD-10 and calls for ...

In August 2021, the internet was swept up in another viral challenge as a plethora of videos went viral that showed people attempting to walk across increasingly higher levels of milk crates. As ...

This is a comprehensive table of nephrology ICD-10 codes used by researchers and healthcare professionals and personnel – nurses, medical coders, physicians, et al. This table has been curated for ...

Starting Oct. 1, 2025, a new diagnosis code was added to the detailed list of codes used by health care providers: the remission of type 2 diabetes.