Icd 9 code for admission to hospital?

Answer 1

ICD-9-CM Coding Guidance for LTC Facilities

Diagnostic coding plays several important roles in every healthcare setting, including long-term care (LTC) nursing facilities. LTC facilities assign ICD-9-CM codes to capture a resident's clinical conditions.

ICD-9-CM facilitates the collection and organization of healthcare statistics on the incidence of diseases. Diagnostic coding is used to:

• Collect diagnostic and statistical data about persons treated by healthcare providers
• Support clinical decision making
• Support reimbursement for services provided
• Comply with federal standards for reporting diagnostic data
• Provide data to support clinical research and quality improvement activities

Answer 2

The International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition, (ICD-9) gives numerical codes to diseases. A hospital admission itself would not have an ICD-9 code. The disease that resulted in admission does.