{"id":59,"date":"2012-05-10T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T12:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:27:33","slug":"medical-coding-structure-in-icd-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/medical-coding-structure-in-icd-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Coding Structure in ICD-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">ICD-10 CM is the new beefed-up avatar of ICD and it brings with it the promise of greater level of detail in morbidity classification and diagnosis specificity.\u00a0 The most obvious difference between ICD-10 and its predecessor, besides the conspicuous variation in the number of the codes (68,000 codes vs 13,000), would be in the structure of the codes themselves.\u00a0 Whereas ICD-9 codes consisted of 3 to 5 characters, which were predominantly numeric with the exception of V and E codes which began with the letters V or E, <a title=\"ICD-10 Codes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/ICD-10-ready.html\">ICD-10 codes<\/a> embrace all the alphabets of the English language except \u201cU\u201d, and the codes themselves contain both alpha and numeric components every single time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E.g. The code for Unspecified Disorder of kidney and ureter was 593.9 in ICD-9, whereas it is designated as N28.9 in ICD-10.<\/p>\n<p>ICD-9-CM CODE STRUCTURE<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ICD-10-CM CODE STRUCTURE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/rcm-tools\/icd-9-to-icd-10-converter\/\">ICD-10-CM CODE STRUCTURE<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Although ICD-10 structure follows the same overall pattern as ICD-9, in that there are still Alphabetic Index and Tabular list, the following are the major changes when compared to ICD-9:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 The alphabetic Index is significantly longer and now has 21 chapters.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 V and E codes are no longer considered as supplemental codes.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Injuries are classified by their anatomical location rather than injury category.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Combination codes for poisonings and external causes.\u00a0\u00a0 Etc.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Also codes for certain diseases, like diabetes mellitus, have been expanded.\u00a0 All these expansions and additions have been done to reflect current clinical classification and also the language used complements current clinical practice.\u00a0 It has been generally seen that coders with enhanced pathophysiological and human anatomy knowledge have had it better when it comes to the assimilation of ICD-10.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus a select few <a title=\"Medical Coding Companies \" href=\"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/about-us.html\">medical coding companies<\/a> like Billing Paradise based out of California have experienced successful outcomes with regards to adopting ICD-10 within their environs, due to the continual educational initiatives adopted in these companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICD-10 CM is the new beefed-up avatar of ICD and it brings with it the promise of greater level of detail in morbidity classification and diagnosis specificity.\u00a0 The most obvious difference between ICD-10 and its predecessor, besides the conspicuous variation in the number of the codes (68,000 codes vs 13,000), would be in the structure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[745],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450185,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/450185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billingparadise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}