Adding specific ICD-10 codes

nursejeff wrote on Tuesday, January 03, 2017:

We used to add ICD-9 codes that we needed in Administration —> Codes. We would use the dropdown to select ICD-9 then fill in the appropriate information then click “Add as New” and it would be there.

Currently, the option to add an ICD-10 code is not there.

Is there a way to do this as with the ICD-9 code?

Jeff Guillory
NP Health Clinic
Lumberton, TX

cmswest wrote on Tuesday, January 03, 2017:

hi Jeff, under Admin->Lists there is a Code types category which controls whether ICD10 is manually loaded or externally through admin->other->external data loads

nursejeff wrote on Friday, January 06, 2017:

Hi Stephen and thank you,

I went to external data loads as you suggested and updated the ICD-10 database.

After doing this, my biller/coder stated, that the specific ICD-10 code she was looking for was still not there. I see it updated to Oct 1st 2015. We need to update to Oct 1st 2016.

I went to the cms.gov website as instructed in openemr and there were several files to download:

Downloads

2016 Code Descriptions in Tabular Order [ZIP, 2MB]
2016 Code Tables and Index [ZIP, 16MB]
2016 ICD-10-CM Duplicate Code Numbers [ZIP, 64KB]
2016 Addendum [PDF, 79KB]
2016 General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) – Diagnosis Codes and Guide [ZIP, 1MB]
FY 2016 Present On Admission (POA) Exempt List (Updated 8/20/2015) [ZIP, 1MB]
2016 ICD-10-CM Guidelines [PDF, 1MB]
2016 Reimbursement Mappings – Diagnosis Codes and Guides [ZIP, 449KB] 

I downloaded the 2016-CM-Code-Tables-and-Index.zip file and placed as directed by openemr:
“2. Place the downloaded ICD 10 database zip files into the following directory: contrib/icd10”

When I went back to the external data page I got this error:

UNSUPPORTED database load file:
2016-CM-Code-Tables-and-Index.zip

Two Questions:

  1. Is this the right file to get the most recent ICD-10 codes?
  2. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks again,

Jeff

cmswest wrote on Friday, January 06, 2017:

hi Jeff, check out this thread:

https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202505/thread/3ad74165/