AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2017 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes

Counseling

Code Z71.82, Exercise counseling, has been created to allow capture of this information for the reporting of the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures. HEDIS is a tool used by more than 90% of America’s health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service. Code Z71.83, Encounter for nonprocreative genetic counseling, has been created to distinguish encounters for procreative genetic counseling (Z31.5). Genetic counseling is the process of helping people understand and adapt to the medical, psychological and familial implications of genetic contributions to disease. ...

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