“ICD codes are medical diagnosis and procedure codes used for billing and health insurance reimbursement, automated decision support and government statistical reports on morbidity and mortality. In fact, they are used around the world – ICD stands for International Classification of Diseases. Not a US creation, the ICD coding system is published by WHO (the World Health Organization, a UN agency) And they’ve been around a long time: Version 1 was created in 1900, with precursors to the ICD codes existing as early as 1853.”
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HealthTechnicaAuthor7, HealthTechnica, 1 September 2009
