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Healthcare News: ICD-10-CM codes can be used to identify incident stroke events in Medicare claims, study reveals

A cohort study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the detection of incident stroke events is moderately accurate when using ICD-10-CM codes in Medicare claims and very accurate in ruling out non-stroke cases.

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