Are You Prepared For ICD-11 Changes?

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Are You Prepared For ICD-11
Changes?
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Are You Prepared For ICD-11 Changes?
The World Health Organization (WHO) updates ICD
codes every few years to improve clinical use and
acknowledge innovation in healthcare. Medical
practices and hospitals spent significant time
and resources organising for and familiarising to
ICD-10, but in May 2019 the World Health
Organization announced the new release of the
International Classification of Diseases,
Eleventh Edition (ICD-11). The good news is that
your medical practice has some time to prepare
for the changes. Countries may start using ICD-11
on January 1, 2022, although theres been no
decision on when and how the United States will
begin implementing ICD-11. What is ICD-11? The
ICD refers to the International Classification of
Diseases, an attempt to use one set of diagnoses
internationally. In January 2022, healthcare
providers in the United States are expected to
start using the 11th edition. This is the most
significant change to disease classification
since ICD-9 was retired in 2015. Currently,
ICD-10 represents about 14,000 distinct
diagnoses. ICD-11 has 55,000 unique codes to
represent a more comprehensive list of diagnoses.
This update is a game-changer for the health and
wellness industry because it recognizes several
common diagnoses that were previously overlooked
in ICD-10. ICD11 has five new chapters, and as
a result, the numbering of the chapters has
changed. The new chapters are
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• Chapter 3 Diseases of the blood or blood-forming
  organs
• Chapter 4 Disorders of the immune system (blood
  and immune system conditions now make up two
  separate chapters)
• Chapter 7 Sleep-wake disorders
• Chapter 17 Conditions related to sexual health
• Chapter 27 Traditional Medicine
• In reference to the new chapter, traditional
  medicine although people across the globe use
  traditional medicine, it has never before been
  classified in this system. Also, a new chapter on
  sexual health brings together conditions that
  were previously categorized in other ways (for
  example, gender incongruence was listed under
  mental health conditions) or described
  differently.
• Many of the issues experienced with ICD-10 are
  proposed to be solved with ICD-11. As an example,
  ICD-11 includes HIV subdivisions, simplified
  diabetes coding, melanoma types, and better
  classification of valve diseases, to name a few
  changes. ICD-11 will also affect extension codes
  indicating temporality, severity, dimensions of
  injury, and external causes. Another new concept
  of ICD-11 is the function of clustering of codes
  that combines two or more codes to describe a
  diagnostic entity.

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It is still undetermined whether the U.S. will
create a modification of ICD-11, as it did with
ICD-10 CM, which may be another factor in a
possible delay. Additionally, the COVID-19 global
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