PRESENT TRENDS IN MEDICAL CODING CLASSIFICATION
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ABSTRACT:
Electronic health records is a computer-based program in which the collection of data is related to clinical research, clinical registry functions, administrative functions, and in quality improvement. This is done by NPL (natural processing language) in the linguistic information is converted into a structural form or in the form of code?i.e numerical form this process of converting the information into a structural form is known as clinical coding this clinical coding is classified into manual coding and automated clinical coding, in Which the manual coding is human-based and automated clinical coding is based on the artificial intelligence technology this also consists of different classification of coding includes ICD’S, CPT ‘S, SNOMED’S, HCPCS.?This article gives a brief outline about the ICD-10, CPT, and SNOMED systems.
INTRODUCTION:
Electronic health records (EHR) have become common ground in healthcare use of the electronic health record has gained a great swift over the few years(1). EHRs have been proposed as a means for improving, the availability, completeness, and legibility of patient information recording any diseases(2). Nearly 3\4 of the physicians generate reports using EHRs with this approach in the medical field is going towards electronic documentation. EHR’s recent system has tended to adopt more active roles in the clinical field(3). EHR’s system has entailed two relevant aspects.?Firstly the chemical data analysis to inform the physician on their medical decisions for the patient(4). Secondly, this exploits data regarding clinical, administrative, and health which includes demographic data and prescriptions, etc…(5) Hospitals and general healthcare providers significantly use medical coding as a tool to record the diagnoses information of a patient or to record the medical services provided by the physician to the patient(6).
CLINICAL CODING:
These medical codes are used to provide access to medical records by retrieving information regarding administrative, educational and medical research(7). These codes also facilitate the payment of health services, evaluate the patient’s use of the health care facilities, study the health care cost, predict the health care trends, and plan health care tools for future needs(8). The purpose of the coding is to provide consistent and comparable clinical information about the patients in the locality over a period of time, these data are used to improve the healthcare planning and policy of the governing authority and these data help the healthcare sector to understand the epidemiological condition of a specific area(9). Classification system like ICD- 10[ International System of Classification of Diseases 10th edition] is used in the conversion of textual data into structured data. Clinical coding is a nontrivial task of collection of the data this is used for billing purposes in the US?this process includes the abstraction of the data and also summarization of the data collected. The US uses ICD 10-based coding system and the UK uses NHS [ national health services] based coding system (10-13)
Figure 1 clinical coding outline?
AUTOMATED CLINICAL CODING (ACC)?
Automated medical coding is a part of electronic health records, this encompasses different computer-based approaches which transform narrative records into structural records these structural records include performing standard coding without human interactions(14). This system of clinical coding may be automated by the use of AI techniques ( artificial intelligence )(15).?This is performed by the use of NPL & machine learning(16). AI has been a most promising approach in the field of medical coding by providing more promising data in a compact form(17). ACC is a potential AI application that is used in managing clinical records of research laboratories and in the healthcare centers (18-20)
In this paper, we summarise the??ICD-10, CPT, and SNOMED clinical coding system and their use in the various medical sector.
Figure 2 Automated coding workflow?
ICD-10 [ International Classification Of Diseases]
ICD is a classification of diseases released by the world health organization (WHO) and this defines the universe of the disease’s injuries, disorders, and other health-related conditions and classifies the standards of the origin(21). The ICD?was first published in the year 1893, ICD has become an important index in the management of medical records, administrative records, health insurance, and literature records regarding diseases(22). At present most of the institutions use ICD-10 codes which are diagnostic-related group subsidies for the inpatient who mainly rely on manual coding done by licensed & professional disease coders(23). This ICD-10 consists of more than 60,000 codes(24-27). This system is time-consuming & labor- intensive and the rules of ICD-10 are complicated even for the disease coders (21,28,29)
Figure 3 History in the development of ICD 10
CPT (Current procedural terminologies):?
CPT was developed in 1996 by the American medical association (AMM) with data from the national medical specialty societies(30,31). This system is the most commonly used system of procedure in the billing codes for medical, surgical, and diagnostical services(31,33).CPT?is?also used in targeting the tissues of cancer by targeting the topoisomerase enzyme(32) and in the various diseases The CPT is classified into three categories they are
?Category I CPT:?these are the codes that are released annually. these codes are the distinct medical procedures which are furnished by the QHPs these codes are mostly of 5 digits.(34)
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Category II CPT:?these codes are the performance measurement codes. These codes are released thrice a year these are numerical alpha codes.(35)
Category III CPT: these codes are not permanent codes these codes emerge day by day due to development of new and emerging technologies to allow the collection of data and to get the assessment of the new services. These codes are released biannually. These codes are also numerical alpha codes
COMPARISON BETWEEN CATEGORY I, II & III CPT CODES
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????????????????CATEGORY I(34,36)?????????????????CATEGORY II(35,36)????????????????????CATEGORY III(36-39)Describe the distinct medical procedure or services furnished by the QHP (qualified health plan )These are performance measurement codesThese are not permanent codes these codes emerge day by day for newly developed technologyThese codes are released annuallyThese codes are released three times a year during the month of march, July and NovemberThese codes are released biannually in January and July5-digit numerical codesNumerical alpha codesNumerical alpha codesOnly numericals (40)4 numerical followed by?letter F (40)4 numerical?followed by letter T (40)
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TABLE 2 CPT CODES CATEGORY I (41)
CATEGORY I CPT CODES?NUMERICAL RANGES?SURGERY10021-69990RADIOLOGY70010-79999PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY80047-89398EVALUATION & MANAGEMENT99201-99499ANESTHESIA00100-0199; 99100-99140MEDICINE90281-99199;99500-99607
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TABLE 3 CPT CATEGORY II (41)
CATEGORY II CPT CODES?NUMERICAL CODES?PATIENT HISTORY1000F-1220FPHYSICAL EXAMINATION2000F-2050FTHERAPEUTIC, PREVENTIVE OR OTHER INTERVENTIONS4000F-4306FPATIENT SAFETY6005F-6045FSTRUCTURAL MEASURES7010F-7025F
TABLE 4 CPT CATEGORY III
CATEGORY III CPT CODES??NUMERICAL CODE?AUDIOLOGY CODES0208T -0212T(38)MONO POLAR RADIO FREQUENCY0672T(39)ULTRA SOUND GUIDED FOR FOCAL LASER0655T(39)
SONMED [SYSTEMISED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE ] :
The systematized nomenclature of pathology (SNOP) was first developed by the?group of pathologist in the College of American Pathologists(42). This enables a consistent way of aggregating, indexing retrieving, and storing clinical data across specialties and sites of care.?SNOMED also enables structuring and computerizing the medical records which reduce the variability in the way data is captured, encoded, and used for the clinical care of the patients. this also enables automated reasoning i.e in decision making(43-45). SNOMED CT is the presently used system of coding in the SNOMED classification. SNOMED CT currently consists of more than three lakh medical concepts this provides a standard by which the medical conditions and symptoms of various diseases can be referred(47).during the Jan 2002 SNOMED CT?was released, the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) maintains and promotes this to the clinical sector. SNOMED coding was mostly used for research purposes. 19 countries in the world uses this SONOMED CT?for maintaining the clinical records(48)
HISTORY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SONMED (46)
YEARVERSIONS OF SNOMED?1965SNOP1974SNOMED1979SNOMED II1993SNOMED Version 3.0YEARVERSIONS OF SNOMED1997LOINC codes integrated into SNOMED1998SNOMED Version 3.52000SNOMED RT2002SNOMED CT
CONCLUSION:
The usage of medical coding in the healthcare sector has made it easier for the collection of patient data regarding a disease diagnosis. So the coding system like ICD, CPT, and SNOMED. ICD –10 system of coding has reduced the coding time for the coder. ICD-10 and NTP have made the development of the ICD-11 model. CPT system has been an effective and efficient recording delivery of medical procedures performed by the physician. SNOMED CT model has provided great opportunities in understanding automated medical coding. Thus the usage of the different system of medical coding in the clinical sector and medical had paved a great improvement in the collection of data regarding healthcare sector by diagnosing various diseases and storage of information in research field.
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