Why is ICD-10-CM better than ICD-9-CM?
The ICD-10-CM coding system provides a significantly increased amount of options for coding medical diagnoses that reflect modern medical knowledge and terminology. The increased availability of codes allows for much greater precision and specificity within the choice of diagnosis codes. ICD-10-CM also has built-in flexibility for future expansion to add new codes for medical diagnoses. Solution: Thousands of our customers are interested in getting ahead of the mandatory implementation date in 2013 for ICD-10-CM. We’ve taken the unwieldy and confusing internet version and presented the data the way you have been used to seeing diagnostic codes. The ICD-10-CM, 2010 Draft includes 7th character icons to help you identify the codes that require a 7th digit to ensure specificity and validity, updated tables and indices, the entire ICD-10-CM code set, and ICD-10 official guidelines for coding and reporting. Our version of the ICD-10-CM draft is prepared in a manner that parallels the ICD-9-
The ICD-10-CM coding system provides a significantly increased amount of options for coding medical diagnoses that reflect modern medical knowledge and terminology. The increased availability of codes allows for much greater precision and specificity within the choice of diagnosis codes. ICD-10-CM also has built-in flexibility for future expansion to add new codes for medical diagnoses. Solution: The ICD-10-CM, 2011 Draft includes 7th character icons to help you identify the codes that require a 7th digit to ensure specificity and validity, updated tables and indices, the entire ICD-10-CM code set and ICD-10 official guidelines for coding and reporting. New in the 2011 draft includes features such as color coding for faster code selection, medical term definitions and detailed, full page anatomy illustrations. Our version of the ICD-10-CM draft is prepared in a manner that parallels the ICD-9-CM code book so that using it feels easy and familiar.
