Study Findings on Health Insurance Are Outlined in Reports from Kyung Hee University (Translation of Korean Medicine Use to ICD-Codes Using National…

Study Findings on Health Insurance Are Outlined in Reports from Kyung Hee University (Translation of Korean Medicine Use to ICD-Codes Using National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Data detailed on Health Insurance have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Seoul, South Korea, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Korean medicine was incorporated into the Korean Classification of Diseases (KCD) 6 through the development of U codes (U20-U99). Studies of the burden of disease have used summary measures such as disability-adjusted life years."

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Kyung Hee University, "Although Korean medicine is included in the official health care system, studies of the burden of disease that include Korean medicine are lacking. A data-based approach was used with National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort data for the year 2012. Ucode diagnoses for patients covered by National Health Insurance were collected. Using the main disease and sub disease codes, the proportion of U codes was redistributed into the related KCD 6 codes and visualized. U code and KCD code relevance was appraised prior to the analysis by consultation with medical professionals and from the beta draft version of the International Classification of Diseases-11 traditional medicine chapter. This approach enabled redistribution of U codes into KCD 6 codes. Musculoskeletal diseases had the greatest increase in the burden of disease through this approach. This study provides a possible method of incorporating Korean medicine into burden of disease analyses through a data-based approach."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Further studies should analyze potential yearly differences."

For more information on this research see: Translation of Korean Medicine Use to ICD-Codes Using National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2016;():1-10. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine can be contacted at: Hindawi Publishing Corp, 410 Park Avenue, 15TH Floor, #287 Pmb, New York, NY 10022, USA. (Hindawi Publishing - www.hindawi.com; Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Y.S. Lee, Kyung Hee Univ, Dept. of Prevent Med, Coll Korean Med, Seoul 130701, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Y.R. Lee, Y. Chae, S.Y. Park, I.H. Oh and B.H. Jang (see also Health Insurance).

Keywords for this news article include: Seoul, South Korea, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies

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