What is ICD 10 used for?

Answer 1

International Classification of Diseases (ICD -10-CM ) is used for various reasons including these:

1) Report diagnoses or symptoms

2) Reimburse for health care services

3) Evaluate health care cost

4) Collect statistics related to sickness and death

5) Research the utilization of health care services

Answer 2

ICD-10 codes are used in this country to report two different medical pieces of information. ICD-10-CM is used to report diagnosis finding on medical claims. ICD-10-PCS is used to report INPATIENT procedures on UB-04 Claims. ICD-10 codes are important to establish medical necessity. Medical necessity must be established for the payment of any claim in this country that passes through an insurance company or third party payer.

ICD-10 Is written and maintained by the World Health Organization.(WHO). ICD-10-CM uses the WHO template and does Clinical Modification (CM) to make the code set work for American Insurance and data collection.