Health Professional Radio - Podcast

Dr. Jeff Stark, MD, Head of U.S. Medical Immunology at UCB, and a rheumatologist, discusses the recent update by the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (a subcommittee of the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) that created a code specific to non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-AxSpA), a chronic inflammatory condition that mainly affects the spine and sacroiliac joint. The condition will now be formally indexed to ICD-10 sub-category M46.8 and effective Oct 1, 2020.