The ICD-10 Codes

There are tons of crazy ICD-10 codes that insurance billers have to use. These codes make it much easier to give a diagnosis with completely explaining it. The code that I picked is W22.02. This code stands for “walked into a lamp post, subsequent encounter.” I have walked into a lamp post plenty of times on accident and I guess I am not the only one. I would think that no one would have to go to the doctor or hospital for just a little bump, but you never know how bad the injury could actually be.

The U.S. lags behind in implementing ICD-10 coding because of other healthcare concerns within our healthcare system. I believe that with the passing of the Affordable Care Act and the changes that it brought about, the major focus for healthcare providers was how to survive and adjust to the changes. From a government stand point, the main focus was getting the Act passed and working out all of the bugs within the system used for consumers to sign up for insurance. Due to this ICD-10 was kind of tabled for a later date. This was good for those providers that had not begun to update their systems.

Switching ICD-9 to ICD-10-CM is going to make a huge difference in the medical field! The switch to ICD-10-CM will help with cost reductions, improve quality of care for patients and update the healthcare data the way it should be. One of the major impacts of the switch would be that ICD-10-CM has 65,000 new codes that ICD-9 didn’t have. Having that many more codes means that the detail in each code will be extremely precise and there would be no question on a person diagnosis. The codes are mainly to classify a disease or someones’ major health problem. With ICD-10-CM new codes, they can become precise enough to identify diseases and produces that we were not able to in ICD-9. This is an awesome, huge step in the medical field!

There are a lot of difference in the structural between ICD-10-CM/PCS. The ICD-9-CM is the international classification of Diseases,9th Revision Clinical Modification it's been used in the United States since 1979 to code diagnoses that describe patients reasons for seeking health care services and to code inpatient hospital services. Did you know that ICD-9-CM will be a legacy system only use for historical purposes because ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS become mandated code sets for transactions conducted by covered entities under the Hipaa. ICD-9-CM emphasizes the intent of the modification to classify and manage data related to the actual examination and treatment of patients. But using ICD-9-CM to code medical claims for reimbursement, ICD-9-CM

ICD-9 and ICD-10 have lots of differences but the following are the ones I consider the most important.

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”, true, however, change is inevitable if the healthcare system is to continue to improve and what’s more, to advance opportunities for betterment of the current system was needed. Before the implementation of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) There was the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). ICD-9-CM became a legacy system once ICD-10 was implemented a step that was very much necessary since ICD-9-CM was in use since 1979 (Green, 2013). The ICD-9 consist of 3 volumes; volume 1 (Tabular List of Diseases). volume 2 (Index to Diseases), and volume 3 (Index to Procedures

Number of codes: ICD-9 has 17,000 diagnostic codes and almost 4,000 procedure codes. In contrast, ICD-10 70,000 diagnostic codes (clinical modification codes) and more than 72,000 procedure codes.

On 10/11/15 at approximately 1944 ICS was activated to an offender OID 236740 who was bleeding and Medical was requested to respond. Upon arrival offender was sitting on the chair in no apparent distress. Offender had dry blood on her hands and on the head. Offender was brought to the clinic and was assessed treated per protocol. Offender was educated to notify with any

Combination codes identify both the condition and the additional specificity requires coders to place greater emphasis on abstracting information from the medical records. Multiple coding is required to describe etiology and manifestation when infectious and parasitic disease produce a manifestation with another body system.

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is part of the ICD-9-CM coordination and maintenance committee. This committee is responsible for maintaining the classification system. NCHS is responsible for the classification of diagnoses involving volumes 1 and 2. NCHS posts the updated material for official code revisions to the classification systems, known as addenda on their centers for disease control and prevention website for the diagnostic portion. NCHS is also responsible for the use of the international statistical classification of diseases and related health problems. Some of the improvement that NCHS has help make are the addition of information relevant to ambulatory, managed care encounters, more injury codes, the making

On 10/09/16 at approximately 1945 ICS was activated in the Visiting Room for offender Mabe OID 251398 for a possible seizure .Upon arrival at the scene offender was found lying of the floor alert, weeping and in no acute ditress. Two visitiors who witnessed the incident reported that the offender was sitting on a chair and her face strated turning red and within afew seconds she fell to the floor and started having convulsions which lasted about three minutes. Offender reported that she had a pseudoseizure and anxiety attack because she is not getting all her mental health medication. Offender was put on wheel chair and brought to the clinic for futher evaluation. Offender was evaluatd in the clinic and was found to be stable. She was sent

Nevertheless, with the date of implementation already expired, larger facilities gain an advantage, whereas smaller practices lag behind (Conn, 2015). That is to say, ICD-10 doesn’t purposely affect health care facilities negatively. Wall (2016) further identifies the impact of ICD-10 with regards on data capturing. It is important to note that data capturing is further improved to capture undetectable data not thought possible. Data can include the under dosing of drugs, which further clarifies two classifications (e.g. specific drugs underutilized, and reason for drug misuse), which play a significant role with the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services data collection, hospital resource utilization, and potential future reimbursement.

Medical codes are used for various recording and reporting purposes within the medical industry. These codes can determine the diagnoses and treatments used in patient care, as well as the mortality and morbidity data that provide statistics. As time and technology progresses a strain has been amplified on coding systems used today that warrants a major update. The United States (US) has yet to implement the most current standardized set of medical codes that have been adopted by the rest of the developed world. This delay in part caused by Congress and the American Medical Association (AMA) is causing the American population to suffer in various ways. As implementation dates are being pushed back time and time again the field is increasing debt by lost opportunities and still not able to communicate medical data across US borders. The International Classification of Diseases , tenth revision (ICD10) can, with the help of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), reduce costs for medical treatment for patients and facilities as well as improve upon facility efficiencies and quality of care. Healthcare providers in the United States (US) should be mandated to implement current sets of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) without further delay to reclaim the forefront of medical care against the top-rated systems of other countries around the world.

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10-CM) is a type of coding system to represent disorders, signs and symptoms, atypical results, complaints, and social conditions. It comprises 14,400 distinctive codes and its structure provides the ability to create future codes (Medicaid.gov., n.d.a). Also, the code set occupies three to seven positions. The code uses alphanumeric characters in all positions, unlike ICD-9 which used it only in the first spot. Character 1 is alpha, character 2 is numeric, characters 3-7 are alpha or numeric (CDC.gov, 2015). Furthermore, ICD-10-CM comprises 68,000 codes which allow codes to be combined such as codes pertaining to diagnoses with symptoms

On one Friday afternoon in the summer of 2014, I was scheduled to report at the Population Management desk at Codman Square Health Center. I had finished tutoring some students and was on my way out of the library with a friend. I took the elevator with 2 other students from the 8th floor, which made the elevator feel a bit crowded. As we went downwards, the elevator doors lurched into each other. The elevator was malfunctioning at this point. A student pressed the Emergency Call button and the voice on the other end said "help is on the way". As minutes passed by, I noticed that my friend began to sweat profusely and being claustrophobic, he began to panic. I had never seen my friend in this condition and I was worried that he might pass out