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ICD Codes, What are Those? Flash Briefing

Posted by Price Wooldridge on July 15, 2021 at 7:05 am

I’ve seen these funny, numerical codes sometimes in my medical paperwork, but didn’t pay much attention. They looked like arcane “office speak” to me, something the accounting department needs for my bill. In fact, I’ve learned these ICD codes are very important in many ways. Yes, they might be used in billing, but they are also used in insurance, treatment plans, research, approval of treatment options, and much more. ICD codes, it turns out, are VERY important.
Here’s a recent LEMS Flash Briefing I recorded to bring you up to speed!

https://soundcloud.com/lemsnews/everylife-introduces-first-of-kind-roadmap-to-icd-codes

Price Wooldridge replied 2 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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Dorothy Dempsey

Member
July 16, 2021 at 4:07 pm

As a medical records director in a 114 bed facility for 27 years, I also did all the coding for all dx and proceedures.
- Price Wooldridge
  
  Member
  July 16, 2021 at 4:41 pm
  
  @dordem Ah! So you know all about these Codes! I found the article interesting and learned how important they really are and how people work hard on them.

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