AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1986 September - October

Rehabilitation, Alcohol and Drug Dependent/Abuse, and Outpatients

Note: These coding guidelines were superseded by new guidelines published in Coding Clinic, Second Quarter, 1991. The following reporting instructions of importance to medical record personnel have been abstracted from Health Care Financing Administration's Transmittal 476, Medicare Hospital Manual, and Transmittal 1,271, Medicare Intermediary Manual, Part 3, Claims Processing. The effective date for these instructions was April 24, 1986. V57 Care Involving Use of Rehabilitation Procedures Bills containing any of the following five V codes as principal diagnosis must be accompanied by a secondary code reflecting the condition for which therapy was needed: V57.1 Other physical therapy...

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