Medical Code Management Tool
Medical Code Managment Tool
The Medical code Management Tool (MCM) is a web-based application designed by the Sentinel network as a mechanism to have a comprehensive, consistent set of medical code terminologies available with which to build data requests. It includes:
- An Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) process: A process to extract medical codes from lookup resources, transform them according to Sentinel specifications, and load them in the MCM database
- Application programming interfaces (API’s): A set of programs to make the data from the MCM database available to the MCM web-based tool, PopMedNet™ (PMN), and the Code Lookup Tool (CLT) described in the next section
- The MCM web-based tool from which analysts and programmers can download code resources to run their program against
Source of MCM Data
| Code Terminology | Source |
|---|---|
| CODBAR | CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network |
| NDC | First Databank |
| HCPCS-CPT | Optum |
| ISBT | International Council for Commonality in Blood Banking Automation (ICCBBA) |
| ICD-9-CM | Optum |
| ICD-9-PCS | Optum |
| ICD-10-CM | Optum |
| ICD-10-PCS | Optum |
| ICD-9-CM — ICD-10-CM mapping* | CMS General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) |
| ICD-9-PCS — ICD-10-PCS mapping* | CMS General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) |
| RxNorm | U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) |
| SNOWMED | U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) |
*Enables mapping according to the methods developed by the Sentinel ICD-10 Workgroup for “Forward & Backward”, “Forward”, and “Backward” mapping.