AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2003 Fourth Quarter; VOLUMES 1 & 2 NEW/REVISED CODES

Difficulty Walking

Effective October 1, 2003, a change has been made to subcategory 719.7, Difficulty in walking, so that a fifth-digit denoting the body site is no longer applicable. The fifth digits were not logical with this subcategory as it implied that the difficulty was due to a specific joint. 719 Other and unspecified disorders of joint Revise The following fifth-digit subclassification is for use with codes 719.0-719.6, 719.8-719.9; valid digits are in [brackets] under each code. See list at beginning of chapter for definitions: 719.7 Difficulty in walking Delete [0, 5-9] ...

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