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Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.
The Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC) are formed by dividing all possible principal diagnoses (from ICD-9-CM) into 25 mutually exclusive diagnosis areas. MDC codes, like diagnosis-related group (DRG) codes, are primarily a claims and administrative data element unique to the United States medical care reimbursement system. DRG codes also are ...
List of ICD-9 codes 140–239: neoplasms; List of ICD-9 codes 240–279: endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders; List of ICD-9 codes 280–289: diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs; List of ICD-9 codes 290–319: mental disorders; List of ICD-9 codes 320–389: diseases of the nervous system and sense organs
The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.
Bob Stump Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Tucson: Tucson VA Medical Center Outpatient Clinic: Gilbert: Southeast Veterans Affairs Health Care Clinic – Gilbert, Arizona Community Based Outpatient Clinic: Anthem: Anthem VA Clinic Casa Grande: Casa Grande VA Clinic Chinle: Chinle VA Clinic Cottonwood: Cottonwood VA Clinic Flagstaff ...
Dec. 4—WASHINGTON — An Eastern Washington veteran and his wife are suing the federal government and the companies behind a computer system the Department of Veterans Affairs has tested in ...
Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) ALD Alcoholic liver disease: ALI Acute lung injury: ALL Acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia: ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: AMD Age-related macular degeneration: AML Acute myelogenous leukemia: AN Anorexia nervosa: AOCD
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.