AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2011 Issue 4; VOLUMES 1 & 2 NEW/REVISED CODES

Thalassemia

Effective October 1, 2011, new codes have been created to describe unspecified thalassemia (282.40), alpha thalassemia (282.43), beta thalassemia (282.44), delta-beta thalassemia (282.45), thalassemia minor (282.46), and hemoglobin E-beta thalassemia (282.47). Previously, there was no accurate estimate of the number of symptomatic non-sickle cell related thalassemia patients in the United States, since ICD 9 CM only provided code 282.49, Other thalassemia, to capture the wide spectrum of this condition. The new ICD 9 CM codes will assist in tracking and studying these patients. Thalassemia is a family of inherited hemoglobinopathies in which...

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