The charge of the Clinical Diagnosis of Osteoporosis Working Group is to formulate a new clinical basis for making the diagnosis of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and older men as recommended in the opinion paper “What’s in a name? What constitutes the clinical diagnosis of osteoporosis?,” Osteoporosis International (2012). Many have argued that the diagnosis for older individuals who sustain a hip or vertebral fracture is osteoporosis, regardless of if they meet the current criteria of a T-score of -2.5 or lower. This working group has reached consensus on a new clinical basis for diagnosing osteoporosis and is now working to engage partners including the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians, Medicare and health insurance carriers to promote a coding change. ICD-10 codes will be used starting in October 2014 and will become final in October 2015. If the group’s definition is endorsed by the various physician societies and payers, then primary care physicians could be educated on osteoporotic fractures and how the expansion of the clinical diagnosis of osteoporosis could impact billing. Endorsements include, but are not limited to: International Society for Clinical Densitometry, International Geriatric Fracture Society, Alliance for Aging Research, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, American Bone Health, Society for Women's Health Research . Click the link to view the manuscript and press release: Clinical Diagnosis of Osteoporosis Manuscript and Press Release