You Ought To Know About Major Changes In ICD-11

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You Ought To Know About Major Changes In ICD-11
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You Ought To Know About Major Changes In ICD-11
The World Health Organization (WHO) periodically
updates ICD codes to improve clinical use and
acknowledge innovation in healthcare. WHO has
said countries can report heath data using ICD-11
from Jan. 1, 2022. In the past it is observed
that transitioning to new ICD codes creates some
confusion and difficulties in the providers mind
hence you ought to know about major changes in
ICD-11 to avoid the confusion that will lead to
higher rate of claims denial. Lets understand
ICD-11. What is ICD 11? The ICD refers to the
International Classification of Diseases. This
change is most significant change to disease
classification since ICD-9 was retired in 2015.
Currently, ICD-10 represents about 14,000
distinct diagnoses. The use of ICD-10 has become
increasingly problematic because of its outdated
content and with changing time ICD-10 will only
become less fit for precise and meaningful
classification. ICD-11 has 55,000 unique codes
to represent a more comprehensive list of
diagnoses. This update is a game-changer for the
healthcare industry because it recognizes several
common diagnoses that were previously overlooked
in ICD-10. However, ICD 11 is more complex system
to learn and implement because you will find the
addition of over 40,000 new codes. Moreover,
there are other major changes and advantages they
bring to ICD-11, you can read them in the
following brief.
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You Ought To Know About Major Changes In ICD-11

• Major changes in ICD-11
• Ease of use
• When it compared to previous versions ICD-11
  coding is more contemporary and more easily
  integrated with electronic health records.
• ICD-11 will be completely electronic with a goal
  of user-friendliness
• Updated structure and content
• Besides diseases, ICD-11 includes external
  causes, disorders, signs and symptoms, anatomy,
  histopathology, and much more.
• Each category will feature four characters rather
  than three, and there are two levels of
  subcategories. The range of potential codes is
  1A00.00 to ZZ9Z.ZZ.
• ICD-11 contains 28 chapters, compared to 22 in
  ICD-10. These additional chapters contains
  chapters for immune system diseases, sleep-wake
  disorders, traditional medicine, developmental
  anomalies, sexual health, and functioning
  assessment, as well as a better representation of
  cancers, devices, medications, substances,
  severity, and causes of injuries.
• ICD-11 allows for multiple applications to meet
  health system priorities. Examples include
  clinical recording, research, mortality,
  morbidity, primary care reporting, patient
  safety, antimicrobial resistance, resource
  allocation, epidemiology, population health,
  health system performance, and reimbursement.
• As you may observe there is special attention
  given to mental health providers and there are
  two new chapters related to mental health in the
  ICD-11. Lets look at them in detail.

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You Ought To Know About Major Changes In ICD-11

• Major Changes for Mental Health Providers
• Change-1 New chapters on sleep-wake disorders
  and sexual health
• The first chapter contains conditions related to
  sexual health, includes
• Sexual dysfunctions
• Sexual pain disorders
• Sexually transmitted infections
• Contraceptive management
• Changes to the male and female sexual anatomy
• The second chapter belongs to new mental health,
• Sleep-wake Disorders, includes
• Insomnia disorders
• Hypersomnolence disorders
• Sleep-related breathing disorders
• Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders
• Sleep-related movement disorders
• Parasomnia disorders

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You Ought To Know About Major Changes In ICD-11

• Change 2- New conditions added to mental,
  behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorders
  includes-
• Compulsive sexual behavior disorder
• Body integrity dysphoria
• Gaming disorder
• Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
• Binge eating disorder
• Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
• Bipolar type II disorder
• Body dysmorphic disorder
• Intermittent explosive disorder
• Olfactory reference disorder
• Change 3-Alignment of ICD -11 with SDM
• The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
  Disorders (DSM-5) is ONLY for mental health on
  the other hand ICD represents all types of
  medical diagnoses.
• Some codes in DSM-5 are not valid ICD codes hence
  ICD-11 trying to address this problem. This
  change is largely due to the joint efforts of the
  WHO and the American Psychiatric Association
  (APA) to harmonize the structures of the DSM-5
  and ICD-11.

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You Ought To Know About Major Changes In ICD-11
Now, you have better understanding about ICD-11
and this coding system will definitely help you
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coding tool, a reference guide, a browser tool,
and transition tables in its implementation
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