The Aging In Motion (AIM) Coalition submitted a proposal to the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee to establish a code for sarcopenia in July of 2014. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accepted AIM’s proposal and announced that an ICD-10-CM code would be available for the medical community to use effective on October 1, 2016. This one-hour webinar provided expert insights into the process for requesting the code addition, the value of ICD-10 data for research, and the significance of a sarcopenia code in the clinical setting.
Speakers included:
Douglas P. Kiel, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Musculoskeletal Research Center and Senior Scientist
the Institute for Aging Research and
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Linda Holtzman, MHA,RHIA,CCS,CCS-P, CPC,CPC-H
Founder
Clarity Coding
Suzette L. Pereira, Ph.D.
Abbott Nutrition
Associate Research Fellow
Strategic Research
Moderated by:
Cynthia Bens
Executive Director, Aging in Motion Coalition
Vice President of Public Policy
Alliance for Aging Research