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Coding Trend Analyses: Dialysis

Basic Details
Date Posted
Status
Complete
Health Outcome(s)
dialysis
Study Type
Coding Trend Analyses
Description

The purpose of this report was to compare the frequency of diagnoses and procedures for dialysis using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) diagnosis codes, and Current Procedural Terminology, Fourth Edition (CPT-4) procedure codes. ICD-10-CM code definitions were determined by mapping from ICD-9-CM code definitions using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs). Forward-backward mapping (FBM) was used to map ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM codes.(1) CPT-4 codes were used to supplement the ICD diagnoses and capture dialysis procedures.

 


(1) Fung, K. W., et al. (2016). "Preparing for the ICD-10-CM Transition: Automated Methods for Translating ICD Codes in Clinical Phenotype Definitions." EGEMS (Wash DC) 4(1): 1211.