Asthma and Patient Engagement: An ICD-10 Marriage

Few relationships in health care equal or trump the intimacy between a health condition and patient engagement than that which will apply to asthma in the wake of the ICD-10-CM transition. The primary reasons are the following: The impending ICD-10-CM coding system coincides with the current international asthma classification system - a system devised by an expert panel of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 2007. The new coding system takes into account the meaningful involvement of patients in the treatment of their asthma. ...