The ICD-9-CM system is used in all venues of healthcare to report diagnoses. T he current diagnosis coding system used in the United States is International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9-Clinical Modification (CM), which has an alphabetic index (Volume 2) and a tabular index (Volume 1). ![]() What are the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM coding systems? This article will describe what the ICD-9-CM/ICD-10-CM codes are, why they are so important, and how clinicians and researchers will convert from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM effective October 1, 2014. Additionally, the United States will finally be using the same diagnosis coding system as the rest of the world. The increased granularity will provide better analysis of disease patterns and outbreak of disease. For instance, the new feature of laterality is directly built into the new codes: separate codes will distinguish right, left, and bilateral, where needed. Numerous new codes will represent more specific anatomic sites, etiologies, comorbidities, and complications, and will improve the ability to demonstrate severity of illness. The new classification codes will be very granular, which means the level of specificity will greatly improve. ![]() One of the main benefits is that the disease classifications will be consistent with current clinical practice and medical technology advances. The wound care industry will gain many benefits when International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10-Clinical Modification (CM) is implemented.
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