Medical coders are aware about ICD 9 and ICD 10 codes. Their was a big transition happened between ICD 9 and ICD 10 codes in the past. We all the know about the steps taken for awareness and implementation for ICD 10 codes. The huge increase in the number of diagnosis codes in ICD 10 had created lot of fear and confusion among the medical coder. But, don’t worry today I am not here to talk about ICD 10 codes.
We will be moving one step ahead now and will now start looking of ICD 11 codes. Yes, World Health Organization (WHO) has released the date for new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). The new ICD 11 codes will be effective from January 1st 2022. Yes, still their is lot of time for getting face to face with ICD 11 codes, but the curiosity to know about these codes has made me to share this news with you all.
Read also: New CPT and HCPCS codes effective from 1st July 2019
Basics information about ICD 11 codes
The new ICD 11 codes contains around 55 000 unique codes for injuries, diseases and causes of death. Let us first check the reason for which WHO has decided to use ICD 11 codes in future. Below are the listed reason for using the new version of ICD codes.
- ICD-10 is outdated both clinically and from a classification perspective
- Substantial structural changes were needed to some chapters
- Necessary changes could not be handled under the normal ICD-10 updating mechanisms
- There is an increasing need to operate in an electronic environment
- There was a recognized need to capture more information, especially for morbidity purposes
Yes, their will be certainly differences between ICD 10 and ICD 10. Major differences in ICD-11 include the use of extension codes to capture information such as temporality, severity, and anatomic detail, and the introduction of code clustering, or combining two or more codes in an explicit post-coordinated way to describe a diagnostic entity. For example, the code cluster DA63/ME24.90 represents the concepts of duodenal ulcer and associated acute gastrointestinal bleeding. Some chapters and sections in ICD-11 have been restructured (e.g., infectious diseases, HIV, valve diseases) and some diseases have changed location (e.g., cerebrovascular diseases moved from the circulatory to the nervous system chapter). There are six new chapters (Diseases of Blood and Blood-forming Organs, Disorders of the Immune System, Conditions Related to Sexual Health, Sleep-Wake Disorders, Extension Codes, and Traditional Medicine).
Any idea why they have decided to go with January instead of October? It was nice getting used to the new codes, before you had to worry about the CPT changes
May be this time they want both ICD 10 and CPT codes go hand in hand…so all new code updates will be effective from same date for both ICD and CPT codes.
Hello can u tell me if 98966 can ever report test results say even from another drs order say if the patient cannot get ahold of that Dr? And this is if it is outside the window of the 7 day prior rule.
When billing G9007 what are the billing issues with that code? Can it be billed with 98966 and what would distinguish it from a typical 98966 documentation wise?