Diabetes included both type I and type II and was defined as any occurrence of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition (ICD-9) diagnosis codes 250.xx, 357.2, 362.0x, or 366.41; ...

ICD-9 codes 433.X1, 434, and V12.54 demonstrated high PPVs for identifying confirmed cerebral events across care settings. Codes recorded in both inpatient and outpatient settings had higher PPVs but ...

The number of diagnosis codes has expanded from 13,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10 codes, with 78 percent of ICD-9 diagnosis codes mapping 1-to-1 with an ICD-10 code, either exactly or approximately.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a list of new and invalid ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes, effective Oct. 1, according a report from the American Academy of Professional ...

Diagnosis and treatment planning are arguably the centerpiece of dental practice. Quantifying and recording a patient's complete set of dental and medical diagnoses requires the use of a common coding ...

The 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) is getting closer, and some physician concerns are becoming more concrete. Will it be difficult to get the codes right? Will ...