Drg codes also are mapped, or grouped, into mdc codes. In medical classification, diagnosis codes are. Procedural classification used in the united statesthe current procedural terminology (cpt) code set is a procedural code set developed by the american medical association (ama)
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It is maintained by the cpt editorial panel
[1] the cpt code set describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among.
A medical classification is used to transform descriptions of medical diagnoses or procedures into standardized statistical code in a process known as clinical coding Diagnosis classifications list diagnosis codes, which are used to track diseases and other health conditions, inclusive of chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and heart disease, and infectious diseases such as norovirus. It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases In health care, diagnosis codes are used as a tool to group and identify diseases, disorders, symptoms, poisonings, adverse effects of drugs and chemicals, injuries and other reasons for patient encounters
Diagnostic coding is the translation of written descriptions of diseases, illnesses and injuries into codes from a particular classification
