{"id":1419,"date":"2010-01-21T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/r\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2021-04-15T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:37:45","slug":"what-is-icd-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/what-is-icd-10\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ICD-10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 10<sup>th<\/sup> revision of the International Classification of Diseases consists of:<br \/>\n\u2022 a tabular list containing cause of death titles and codes<br \/>\n\u2022 inclusion and exclusion terms for cause of death titles<br \/>\n\u2022 an alphabetical index to diseases and nature of injury, external causes of injury, table of drugs, and chemicals<br \/>\n\u2022 descriptions, guidelines, and coding rules<\/p>\n<p>ICD-10 has two components:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #eaab00;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>ICD-10-CM<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nICD-10-CM is the new diagnosis coding system that is being developed as a replacement for ICD-9-CM, Volumes 1 &amp; 2. The number of diagnostic codes under ICD-10-CM will swell from around 13,000 to 68,000.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #eaab00;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>ICD-10-PCS<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nICD-10-PCS, for \u201cprocedural coding system,\u201d is being developed as a replacement for ICD-9-CM, Volume 3, for inpatient procedure reporting. ICD-10-PCS would be used by hospitals and payers. ICD-10-PCS is significantly different from Volume 3 and from CPT codes, and will require significant training for users. The number of inpatient procedure codes will jump from 4,000 to 72,500 with ICD-10-PCS. ICD-10-PCS will not affect the coding of physician services in their offices. However, physicians should be aware that documentation requirements under ICD-10-PCS are quite different, so their inpatient medical record documentation will be affected by this change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases consists of:<br \/>\n\u2022 a tabular list containing cause of death titles and codes<br \/>\n\u2022 inclusion and exclusion terms for cause of death titles<br \/>\n\u2022 an alphabetical index to diseases and nature of injury, external causes of injury, table of drugs, and chemicals<br \/>\n\u2022 descriptions, guidelines, and coding rules<\/p>\n<p>ICD-10 has two components:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[38,33],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare-information-management","category-archive","tag-blog","tag-industry-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16658,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/16658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}