Worried about the transition from the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9), to ICD-10? A new Web site is designed to ease the process for you and other healthcare providers by enabling you to input your currently used codes to find the appropriate new ones.
Physicians currently can memorize the ICD-9 codes they most frequently use in their practices, because they typically use only about 10 codes, says Andrew D. Boyd, MD, part of the team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) that developed the tool. “When you think of a specific disease, you literally think of the individual code,” he adds. But that ability will change with ICD-10, which will see the overall number of codes increasing from 14,000 to 68,000.
