What is icd-9 coding?

Answer 1

ICD-9 coding is numerical way of identifying medical conditions for billing and statistical purposes With regard to Medical conditions.....In medical technology ICD-9 codes stands for International Statistical Classification of diseases and related Health problems. for e.g:-001-139 lists infectious and parasitic diseases 680-709 lists Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue for eg:- 680 carbuncle and furuncle 680.0 Boil face 680.1 Boil neck 680.2 Boil Trunk

Answer 2

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (commonly known as the ICD) provides alpha-numeric codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. Nearly every health condition can be assigned to a unique category and given a code, up to six characters long. Such categories usually include a set of similar diseases.