tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2018 Issue 9

You Be the Coder: Look to "T" Codes for Heatstroke Dx

Question: We have had more patients than usual who have presented for heatstroke, but we aren’t sure which diagnosis code applies to this. The ICD-10 manual refers me to T67.0 (Heatstroke and sunstroke) for this condition, but when we reported this code, we got a denial. Can you advise? Supercoder.com Subscriber Answer: You were looking at the right section of the ICD-10 manual, but it appears that you submitted a truncated code. T67.0 must be coded out to the seventh character, as noted in the ICD-10 manual. You’ll use the seventh character of &ldquo...

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