Iam a physician (surgeon and internist) working with patients for more than 3 decades in India ,Iran and USA.
The only diagnostic taxonomy that we are required to use by law is the World Health Organization’s ICD. All insurance companies that accept and process claims electronically must accept ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes; and soon, the ICD-10 will be required for insurance claims.
Committee on A Framework for Developing a New Taxonomy of Disease
The only diagnostic taxonomy that we are required to use by law is the World Health Organization’s ICD. All insurance companies that accept and process claims electronically must accept ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes; and soon, the ICD-10 will be required for insurance claims.
Toward Precision Medicine:
Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical
Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease
Committee on A Framework for Developing a New Taxonomy of Disease
After ICD 10 was implemented practically everyone chooses 5 or 6 codes and use them over and over because the EHR systems and the complexity of ICD does not allow a PCp to spend the necessary time to choose the correct diagnosisi out of the hundreds of chioces
also ICD does not seem to understand that many a time we are flying blind we have a working diagnosisi and do investigations
so the code used inn the begining will change once all investigations are back but most systems do not take this in to account
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