AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1987 January - February

Principal Diagnosis: Coding Cautions

The Supplemental Classification (V codes) of ICD-9-CM is provided to deal with occasions when circumstances other than a disease or injury classifiable to categories 001-999 are recorded as the diagnosis or problem. Many of the V codes serve to classify certain types of outpatient encounters or to supplement inpatient diagnoses. Only a certain number of V codes merit use as principal diagnoses. On October 1,1986, the Health Care Financing Administration issued a list to the fiscal intermediaries of V codes that are not acceptable as principal diagnoses in the Medicare prospective pricing system. To simplify the task of...

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