Major unmet needs for patients with arthritis include new, effective interventions for the safe treatment of chronic pain, improving insurance coverage for effective evidence-based, non-pharmacologic interventions, as well as newer, targeted small molecules, biologic DMARDs, and the development and approval of Disease Modifying Osteoarthritis Drugs (DMOADs) to slow or prevent progression of osteoarthritis.
The use of ICD-9-CM codes for clinical and public health purposes ended with the implementation of ICD-10-CM codes effective October 1, 2015. Standard definitions of generic and specific types of arthritis need to be developed for clinical and public health researchers using the new ICD-10-CM codes.
Fibromyalgia does not fit within the main arthritis classifications but is considered a chronic pain condition. The primary symptoms are widespread pain throughout the body and fatigue. Recent revisions to diagnosis now focus on four criteria.1
1) Generalized pain, defined as pain in at least 4 of 5 regions is present.
Back Pain (Lumbar and Low Back):
Back Disorders:
Ankylosing spondylitis and other inflammatory spondylopathies: 720*
Spondylosis and allied disorders: 721.2-721.9
Other and unspecified disorders of back: 724
Disk Disorders:
Displacement of intervetebral disc: 722.10, 722.11
Schmorl's nodes: 722.30-722.39
Degeneration of intervetebral disc: 722.51, 722.52, 722.60
Intervertebral disc disorder with myelopathy: 722.72, 722.73
