HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2015 Issue 30 (August)

Differentiate between diagnostic and therapeutic Drainage procedures in ICD-10-PCS

August 12th, 2015

Drainage procedures can be therapeutic in nature or diagnostic, such as when a physician removes a fluid or gas for biopsy. Anita Rapier, RHIT, CCS, Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA, and Shannon E. McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CCDS, highlight the differences in coding diagnostic and therapeutic thoracocentesis and lumbar tap procedures in ICD-10-PCS.

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