09/16/2024
We need you!
🚨 Help Us Make a Change! 🚨
We need your help sending a message of support for ICD-10 codes for Lipedema to the CDC!
🎇 Before October 11, 2024, email [email protected] with this statement: "I support implementing ICD-10 codes for Lipedema now."
Tell whether you're a patient, provider or caregiver. You can then feel free to share your challenges as a patient or provider caused by not having diagnosis codes in place if you'd like. Please keep it short.
❗ Why is this a big deal? ❗
💜 With codes on every doctor's system, diagnosis can be tracked which means we will be able to know the true prevalence of lipedema soon.
💜With codes in place, doctors will have a consistent way to report that a person has lipedema.
💜With codes in place, the disease is legitimized. A medical provider cannot deny its existence if the codes are right there in the system.
💜With codes in place, it reduces the chaos that it is in the medical system for patients and providers. Diagnosis will surely come more quickly.
💜Research and grants will be easier to fund with a recognized separate code for lipedema.
💜Patients can point to the codes when working with insurance for coverage of treatments, supplies, and surgeries related to managing their condition.
Getting ICD-10 codes in place now is foundational to all of the work we collectively (members of the ALA or not, right!) are trying to accomplish.
Please email the CDC at [email protected] with your support of ICD-10 codes for lipedema today. Thank you so much for your personal advocacy!
