What You Need to Know About ICD-10 ICD-10 is a diagnostic coding system created by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the late 1990’s. It was intended to replace ICD-9 in order to more accurately capture diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. The ICD-10 is significant because the new code system will allow for better analysis of disease patterns and treatment outcomes, which will theoretically advance medical care. ICD-10 is expected to create a challenge for medical providers, namely in the area of productivity. Given that the ICD-10 is so substantially different than ICD-9, coders must be able to learn how to do their jobs dramatically differently. As such, medical coder productivit

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