tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2018 Issue 6

ICD-10: Prove Urine Test Medical Necessity With Accurate ICD-10 Codes

Your ED bills these services frequently, so pinpoint the right codes. When patients present to your ED with possible urinary tract infections (UTIs), your provider is likely to administer a urine culture or urinalysis. To report the services accurately, you'll need to pinpoint which ICD-10 codes describe your patient's condition. Fact: Hundreds of signs, symptoms, test results, final diagnoses, and related conditions can lead to the need for urinalysis or urine culture, so your lab personnel should know how to spot diagnoses that make the grade or miss the mark to demonstrate medical necessity for one or more of...

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