New Diagnostic Codes for ME/CFS in the US ICD-10-CM
Code change will ensure US can track diagnosed cases of ME/CFS in newly created electronic health records
Code change will ensure US can track diagnosed cases of ME/CFS in newly created electronic health records
Since 2015, the 1-2.5 million Americans with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) have been effectively nonexistent, at least as far as US disease tracking systems are concerned. Americans don’t experience any morbidity (suffering, impairment) from ME/CFS. They can’t die with ME/CFS. Nobody develops ME/CFS following an acute COVID-19 infection – despite all the evidence that