One of my previous jobs involved taking a few classes on ICD coding. ICD is the International Classification of Disease Standard. It is how governments, insurance companies, statisticians, etc classify every facet of medical care including diagnosis, treatment, outcome of diseases, injuries, etc.
The nurse in this video is not wrong. But the ICD 10 standard is already a few years old and was written well before Covid came on scene.
If you look at the previous ICD-9 standard, which was 2012 - specifically this section -
Again, the nurse is not wrong. The coding could be used for what she says - but it always could have been. ICD is written to include almost every concievable disease, treatment, outcome, and patient interaction that you could ever think of. That in itself is scary enough.
Most people have no concept of this stuff, so just attempting to add a bit of personal insight.
Hi all.
One of my previous jobs involved taking a few classes on ICD coding. ICD is the International Classification of Disease Standard. It is how governments, insurance companies, statisticians, etc classify every facet of medical care including diagnosis, treatment, outcome of diseases, injuries, etc.
The nurse in this video is not wrong. But the ICD 10 standard is already a few years old and was written well before Covid came on scene.
If you look at the previous ICD-9 standard, which was 2012 - specifically this section -
http://www.icd9data.com/2012/Volume1/V01-V91/V60-V69/V64/V64.05.htm
you will see basically the same coding options.
Again, the nurse is not wrong. The coding could be used for what she says - but it always could have been. ICD is written to include almost every concievable disease, treatment, outcome, and patient interaction that you could ever think of. That in itself is scary enough.
Most people have no concept of this stuff, so just attempting to add a bit of personal insight.
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Thank you the insight!
Thank you.
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