Code for Medication

OpenEMR Development
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antiael7 wrote on Thursday, March 27, 2014:

Hello! As we know there are three categories of issues : Medical Problems, Allergy and Medication. What coding you use for medications?

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fsgl wrote on Thursday, March 27, 2014:

Most practices use NDC or RxNorm.

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antiael7 wrote on Friday, March 28, 2014:

ok thank you. Why in the demo of openEMR 4.1.2 you use ICD 9 for Medication?

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jcahn2 wrote on Friday, March 28, 2014:

Someone is presently working on integrating the rxnorm drug database into the prescribing function and also a better integration of the prescription function and medications list.

Thanks for reminding the project about this as it is awkward (yes embarrassing) to explain the ICD-9 lookup to new users or during demos. It might be useful to associate a medication with a diagnosis for some insurance plans, but I haven’t seen that prevent the task of prior authorizations for certain medications.

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fsgl wrote on Friday, March 28, 2014:

All Issues, be they Allergy, Surgery or Dental are associated with a Diagnosis, therefore ICD-9 codes are used. The Issues are not coded for that specific Issue. For example, in Surgery, instead of CPT coding, there is a lookup for ICD-9.

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antiael7 wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2014:

ok, thank you

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fsgl wrote on Saturday, March 29, 2014:

Παρακαλώ.