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ICD-10 Code Ambiguity Obscures Treatment-Eligible Adults with Spinal Muscular Atrophy: A Single-Center Chart Review and Patient Outreach Study

2026-06-15

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<h4>Background</h4> Three disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have been approved since 2016, yet many adults remain untreated. Identifying them depends on ICD-10 codes that capture SMA but do not reliably distinguish it from other related conditions. We examined, in one U.S. health system, both patients’ engagement with therapy and the accuracy of the codes used to find them. <h4>...

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Literature Corpus work: 8058d39e-4178-5c6e-a462-146bcaaea80a
DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.07.26355122

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