The two most common challenges from healthcare organizations include: whether documentation is sufficient for the transition and how to integrate systems that will accept ICD-10 codes.

As doctors prepare for the change to ICD-10, it's helpful to know what the most commonly used primary care codes will now look like.

The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis ...

ICD-10 allows for up to 7 alpha-numeric characters to reflect much more specificity. As an example, a commonly used ICD-9 code is Coronary Artery Disease, Unspecified, or 414.00.

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 ...

Medical practitioners can enter the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code "W17.9" to quickly register another fall from a milk crate.

This is a comprehensive table of OB/GYN ICD-10 codes used by researchers and healthcare professionals and personnel – nurses, medical coders, physicians, ...

A complete list of all nephrology ICD-10 codes, including those for nephritis, kidney injury, acute kidney failure, and other nephrology conditions.

The development of new climate-sensitive ICD codes, such as "sequela from heatwave" and "exposure to wildfire smoke," would help medical professionals and patients understand the scope of the ...