Transition to international classification of disease version 10, clinical modification: the impact on internal medicine and internal medicine subspecialties.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The US health care system uses diagnostic codes for billing and reimbursement as well as quality assessment and measuring clinical outcomes. The US transitioned to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) on October, 2015. Little is known about the impact of ICD-10-CM on internal medicine and medicine subspecialists. METHODS:We used a state-wide data set from Illinois Medicaid specified for Internal Medicine providers and subspecialists. A total of 3191 ICD-9-CM codes were used for 51,078 patient encounters, for a total cost of US $26,022,022 for all internal medicine. We categorized all of the ICD-9-CM codes based on the complexity of mapping to ICD-10-CM as codes with complex mapping could result in billing or administrativ

SUBMITTER: Caskey RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5935982 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature