ICD-10 Code Explorer Video Demonstration

Why It Matters

I tried to build this five times and failed every time.

The problem was never the idea. CMS source files are messy and inconsistent, and nothing lines up until you force it to. Six attempts to find that out. The sixth one finally worked.

I built a Python ingestion pipeline, pushed everything into SQLite, added SQLAlchemy models, and put a Streamlit UI on top with autocomplete, billable-only and category filters, pagination, and a clean detail view for each code. Fast. Clean. Actually useful.

Models can spot trends. But if there’s no code recognized by the payer, none of it gets reimbursed. ICD-10 is still the forcing function. It takes every model back to the same question: how will this be paid for.

Reimbursement isn’t abstract. It’s in the data. It’s where patient outcomes and spending actually live.

Video demo and infographic above.