ICD-10: A Transition That’s Already Happening

ICD-10 in 2015: a year of transition.

AMA, 99 other groups call for ICD-10 transition contingencies.

The transition to ICD-10-CM: challenges for pediatric practice.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Diagnostic codes are used widely within health care for billing, quality assessment, and to measure clinical outcomes. The US health care system will transition to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), in October 2015. Little is known about how this transition will affect pediatric practices. The objective of th...

Evaluation of DoD Syndrome Mapping and Baseline for ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM Transition

Introduction The Department of Defense conducts syndromic surveillance of health encounter visits of Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries. Providers within the MHS assign up to 10 diagnosis codes to each health encounter visit. The diagnosis codes are grouped into syndrome and sub-syndrome categories. On October 1, 2015, the Health and Human Services-mandated transition from ICD9-CM to IC...

The neurological adaptation of ICD-10 (ICD-10 NA).

The systematic categorization of disorders, provided by the World Health Organization in the "International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death" (ICD) is an essential tool for epidemiological and clinical research, for the indexing of national and international statistics of morbidity and mortality, to monitor health services and to formulate public health polic...