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BfArM published final ICD-10-GM version 2023

The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices in Germany (BfArM) published the final version of the ICD-10-GM for 2023.

The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices in Germany (BfArM) published the final version of the ICD-10-GM (International Classification of Diseases) for 2023 on its website on September 21st 2022.

The ICD provides codes for assigning diseases to corresponding reimbursement. The diagnoses made by physicians are transferred to the payers via these ICD-codes for reimbursement according to the DRG-system.

Among other things, there is an important change for sepsis. A new 5-digit code has been introduced to enable more specific coding of sepsis caused by viruses, fungi and protozoa.

You can find the official ICD-10-GM version 2023 here.

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