ICD code definition

ICD code means an International Classification of Diseases code, a set of numbers or letters or a combination of letters and numbers that specify a disease, condition, or injury; the location of the disease, condition, or injury; or the circumstances under which a patient may have incurred the disease, condition or injury, which is used by a health care institution for billing purposes.

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ICD code means an international classification of diseases diagnosis, which includes codes for traumatic and other acquired brain injuries and has been documented in writing by a duly licensed medical professional or psychologist for the purpose of assisting an individual with brain injury to qualify for the BISF program. Current ICD codes may be accepted from medical doctors (MDs), osteopathic doctors (DOs), certified nurse practitioners (CNPs), physician assistants (PAs), and Ph.D. psychologists.

ICD code means a number assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases 9th Revision, effective date of 1 October 1993, copyrighted by the US Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities, and having the Library of Congress number 77-94472;

Examples of ICD code in a sentence

• Current validating process at MH DW requires: • at least one diagnosis code (in Primary Diagnosis field #19) for all applicable encounter types as specified in section 8.0. • diagnosis codes contain the required number of digits outlined in the ICD code books.

• Moreover, Client is responsible for obtaining, and keeping updated, any third-party materials that may be required to operate and/or use the features and functionality of any Company Software and/or Service, including but not limited to CPT and ICD code files.

• Hypertension is defined as SBP>=140 at baseline; the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code for breast cancer and dementia can be found in Supplementary Tables 13-15.

• Where a diagnosis alters following an initial assessment or at any other time, you agree to revise any future invoices to include the revised ICD code.

• In studies that have validated the use of the ICD code against medical record abstraction in the general population, the positive predictive value of the ICD code alone was approximately 60%, suggesting that a number of SLE cases identified by the code are not true cases [46].

• The explanation provided by the hospital was that some entrances in the inpatient registries were not reported as victims of accidents (by using the ICD code of external cause) and the data sent to us was filtered by the ICD code describing the cause as a traffic accident.

• Note that ICD code does not incorporate an explicit severity dimension.

• In additional to having a prescription for an antiviral regimen, those who had an ICD code for AIDS nephropathy or HIV Disease were classified as being HIV positive.

• Detail in the ICD code and demographic variables has been minimised where required so that o the indirect identification of Data Subjects is highly unlikely.

• Detail in the ICD code and demographic variables has been minimised where required o so that the indirect identification of Data Subjects is highly unlikely.

More Definitions of ICD code

ICD code means a number assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in the Australian Version of The International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), effective date of 1 July 1996, copyrighted by the National Coding Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, and having ISBN 0 642 24447 2;

ICD code means the code under the International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification/Coding System, for the most recent edition commonly used.