Mental, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Disordersġ3. Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseasesĥ. Certain Infectious and Parasitic DiseasesĤ. The table below lists the 21 sections for Diseases and Injuries:ġ. Unlike ICD-9-CM, no chapter in ICD-10-CM is considered as supplementary. It also contains three index tables for conditions related to 1) Chemicals and Drugs, 2) External Causes of Injury, and 3) Neoplasms which can expedite finding codes for those issues. The ICD-10-CM tabular divides Diseases and Injuries into 21 sections or chapters. This information is used by payers and auditors in their reviews of code use. Answers to questions about ICD-10 code interpretations or applications are published quarterly by the AHA in Coding Clinic for ICD-10 CM/PCS. The ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting provides the rules for using the code set. ICD-10-CM is the HIPPA transaction code set for diagnosis coding. The US version of ICD is managed by the National Center for Healthcare Statistics (NCHS) of the CDC with additional oversight by the cooperating parties: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), American Hospital Association (AHA), and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). ICD has been used in the US since 1949 (ICD-6).
The primary purpose of ICD is for epidemiological tracking of illness and injury. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the copyrighted official publication of the World Health Organization (WHO). ICD-10-PCS will be discussed in FAQ 9 below.
You may also hear about ICD-10-PCS (Procedure Coding System), another code set used for inpatient hospital procedures. ICD-10-CM is the current diagnosis code set used in the United States, effective October 1, 2015.
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