the new ICD-10 list

[Robby]

"On October 1, 2015, fibromyalgia will finally be recognized as an official diagnosis in the new ICD-10 list of codes being adopted across the U.S. This is the final culmination of the advances over the last decade in the medical community's understanding and acceptance of fibromyalgia as a real disease.
For the past 30 years, every U.S. hospital and doctor's office has used the ICD-9 list of codes to indicate a diagnosis for all patient encounters. This list does not include a specific diagnosis code for fibromyalgia. Instead doctors have had to use the code "Myalgia and myositis, unspecified (729.1)," which includes any disorder causing muscle pain or inflammation. Muscle pain is definitely a part of fibromyalgia, but there are other important symptoms and unique features that make it a distinct entity, including non-restorative sleep, fatigue, and foggy thinking. In the new system, fibromyalgia finally gets its own diagnostic code: "Fibromyalgia (M79.7)." "

http://nationalpainreport.com/the-health-care-industry-finally-recognizes-fibromyalgia-8827637.html

[looneylane]

Cool stuff!

[Lonesome George]

Going to show this to my disability lawyer at out meeting tomorrow.  Hopefully it will help me in the hearing.

[Robby]

Going to show this to my disability lawyer at out meeting tomorrow.  Hopefully it will help me in the hearing.

That was my hope in posting it.

[ronr]

 

Another step toward being recognized as a "Real Disease!"

[Lonesome George]

Gave a copy of it to the lawyer and told her to use it in my case.  Next I'm giving it to my doc and make sure he codes me with the new code next visit.  Thanks for posting it.

[foxgrove]

  Wonderful progress!!!  It's good to see the bigger players in this starting to get behind what we've all known for years... it's VERY real.  I guess they're just a bit slow... big gears and all.  Here's hoping this stone starts gathering some speed on it's journey.

[Barberian]

Another chronic misreading. Every time I see this thread title I read it and it reminds me of the running joke in the military for the ID ten T form (ID10T or Idiot form). lol

[Robby]

Another chronic misreading. Every time I see this thread title I read it and it reminds me of the running joke in the military for the ID ten T form (ID10T or Idiot form). lol

I wasn't in the military, but I made up a couple of those "ID 10T" forms for different places I worked. 

[mloved]

Great News Robby!!

ICD10 replaces ICD9  One would have to know where to look among the codes.  The following link is the updated ICD10 -

http://icd10coded.com/cm/ch13/

Click code M79 - "Other and unspecified soft tissue disorders, not elsewhere classified"
Then scroll down to Code M79.7  Fibromyalgia

The following link is one of probably many to assist drs etc with updating -

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/solutions-managing-your-practice/coding-billing-insurance/hipaahealth-insurance-portability-accountability-act/transaction-code-set-standards/icd10-code-set.page