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Week 2: Chapter questions
Amy G Martinez HIM 640 001
Professor Kathleen Peterson
February 11th, 2024
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The intent of the classification for use in the United states was for the international
classification of diseases (ICD) was for them to use as a globally diagnostic tool for
epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes. Within the ICD they wanted to
use its core to ensure classificatory diagnostic systems for healthcare related issues of the
WHO family of international classifications and using the system to suit its own needs.
When it comes to the United States developments such as a clinical modification (ICD-
10-CM) their purpose is for medical diagnoses between HIPAA and health institutions
for individuals. Based on both the WHO ICD-10 and CMS was a new procedure coding
system (ICD-10-PCS) for inpatient procedure, with all this they had the ability to
compare both data in past and future provided by databases.
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The World health organization (WHO) is a very important group in which they use
methods such as the ICD to help identify health trends and statistics worldwide and with
various methods involved there are going to be changes and replacements. The new
revision of ICD released from WHO is called ICD-11, this is the eleventh revision that
the ICD has made to replace ICD-10 which codes health information and causes of death.
ICD-11 will eventually replace the previous revision as it is also related in which both
systems are categorical and their information was based on self reported or clinically
observable symptoms. A huge similarity is that both ICD-10 and ICD-11 main focus is
their reporting of causes for illnesses and death, just by replacing ICD-10 there will be a
more refined detailed overview of diagnoses. 3.
The format of the ICD-10-CM code stands for international classification of diseases,
tenth revision, clinical modifications. It's important that we note that within this system it
will be used by physicians and other healthcare providers to classify and code all
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diagnosis, symptoms and procedures recorded within hospital/facility care. The first three
characters of an ICD-10 code are the category of the diagnosis, the fourth character is the
specific body part where the procedure was performed, the x is a placeholder that is
required for the 5th character when extension is necessary and the 6th indicated laterality
and 7th under ICD-10 defines the type of encounter. The minimum number of characters
that are required for an ICD-10-CM code is three as stated they are the category level
which gives a basic idea of disease or condition. The maximum character for the ICD-10-
CM code is 7 as they will provide the highest level to allow coders to pinpoint specific
disease, conditions and procedures. While this seems to be a very large process in order
for coders to know what characters to use in a code they must follow a structured process.
They will identify the appropriate categories that describe patient conditions (3
characters), then find the 4th to determine the level, the 5th and 6th to indicate location,
7th if necessary to find stage of disease and specific information. Once 1 to 7 characters
are found they must refer to coding guidelines to ensure accurate coding assessment to
verify accurate with patients conditions and lastly update codes as needed. 4.
ICD-10-PCS is a 7 character alphanumeric code structure, each character can have up to
34 possible values and each value will represent a specific option for the general
character. Each ICD-10-PCS character stands for the body system heart and great vessels
and the root operation dilation under the medical surgical section. The minimum is 3 and
the maximum is 7 to be used in the ICD-10-PCS code.
5.
The process for revision and updates for ICD-10, ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS is very
technical. CMS has updated ICD-10-PCS each year since being published, bpth ICD-10-
CM and ICD-10-PCS are formed to follow the same procedures as ICD-9-CM committee
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which they will consider new codes and revisions to existing codes.NCHS will be
responsible for these classifications and if committee meeting are needed they will be
open to the public and available on their websites. For ICD-10 the URC was able to
manage updated processes and recommendations each year, a proposal will be brought to
the annual meeting and from there the committee will decide if revisions are required and
how they will be undertaken. If and once approved the official update will be published
they will list sources and implementation date to WHO ICD website.