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Making the Change: Why the ICD-10 Couldn’t Come Sooner

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Yixuan James Zheng

If you have ever gone to the doctor’s office, chances are an ICD code, critical to your health care and billing, was used. The ICD stands for the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. The 10th revision, the ICD-10, was finally adopted by the U.S. on October 1, 2015. Specifically, the U.S. […]

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