AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1992 Fourth Quarter; New/Revised Codes

Malnutrition Codes

Malnutrition is generally thought of as a problem associated with children. Increasingly, it is becoming a problem for the elderly of this country who are unable to properly care for themselves, and who do not have the resources to obtain daily care. Category 262, Other severe protein-calorie malnutrition, and category 263, Other and unspecified protein-calorie malnutrition, contain inclusion statements that define malnutrition in terms of weight for age, which is a standard method for classifying childhood malnutrition. Effective October 1, 1992, all the inclusion statements from the malnutrition codes have been deleted. With this change, it is hoped that...

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