MEDICAL CODING IN CALICUT

 INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DESEASE (ICD)                          International Classification of Diseases (ICD), in medicine, diagnostic tool that is used to classify and monitor causes of injury and death and that maintains information for health analyses, such as the study of mortality (death) and morbidity (illness) trends. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is designed to promote international comparability in the collection, processing, classification, and presentation of mortality statistics. This includes providing a format for reporting causes of death on the death certificate. VERSION OF ICD ICD-6 ICD-7 ICD-8a ICD-9 ICPM ICD-9-CM ICD-10 ICD-10-CM ICD-10-CA ICD-11 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes will tell the story of each patient encounter, describe etiologies of the disease process, explain the complications of care, provide a basis for medical necessity, support coverage for payment pu...