Research Article

Utilization Patterns of IV Iron and Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents in Anemic Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: A Multihospital Study

Table 1

Diagnoses codes (ICD-9-CM) and procedure codes used to identify Chronic Kidney Disease patients (inclusion criteria).

          Diagnoses and procedure codes for inclusion criteria

Diagnoses codes

DescriptionICD-9-CM Codes

 Chronic renal failure585.1–585.6, 585.9
 Renal failure, unspecified586
 Renal sclerosis, unspecified 587
 Hypertensive renal disease 403.00–403.9
 Hypertensive heart and renal disease 404.00–404.9
 Nephrotic syndrome 581.0–581.9
 Chronic glomerulonephritis582.0–582.9
 Nephritis (NOS as acute or chronic) 583.0–583.9
 Chronic pyelonephritis (without lesion of renal medullary necrosis) 590.00
 Chronic pyelonephritis (with lesion of renal medullary necrosis)590.01
 Renal dialysis status V45.1
 Fitting or adjustment to dialysis catheter V56.1-V56.2
 Adequacy testing for hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysisV56.3, V56.31, V56.32
 Encounter for dialysis and dialysis catheter careV56.0, V56.8
 Anemia of Chronic kidney disease285.21

Procedure codes

 Hemodialysis39.95
 Peritoneal dialysis54.98