tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2014 Issue 1

ICD-10 Coding: Look Sharp and Listen Up: ICD-10 Brings These Changes to Your Eyes and Ears Disease Diagnoses

Exact anatomical location and laterality are the buzzwords for dealing with eye and ear presentations. When it comes to a need for greater specificity, the eyes and ears have it in ICD-10. Read on for instruction on how this works in your ED reporting. In ICD-10, eye codes have been expanded to increase anatomic specificity and add the concept of laterality. Many of the codes include right, left, bilateral and unspecified eye. If the option of “bilateral” is not available, and the condition is present in both eyes, it is correct to assign the code for right and...

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