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.
- 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 purposes, identify incidence of disease, and support statistical. ICD is the foundation for the identification of health trends and statistics globally, and the international standard for reporting diseases and health conditions. It is the diagnostic classification standard for all clinical and research purposes.
ADVANTAGES OF ICD-10
- Measuring the quality, safety and efficacy of care
- Designing payment systems and processing claims for reimbursement
- Conducting research, epidemiological studies, and clinical trials
- Setting health policy.
- Operational and strategic planning and designing healthcare delivery systems.
The ICD works as a classification system so that your psychotherapist, psychiatrist or mental health nurse can correctly diagnose your symptoms and provide the best available treatment. So it means you get a diagnosis that is based on thorough, highly regulated, updated, and researched information. Most psychologists were trained using some version of DSM. For other health care providers, the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) – which contains a chapter on mental disorders – is the classification standard.
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