tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2015 Issue 7

ICD-10: Stop Reimbursement Leaks: Tighten Up Your Dx Coding for Genitourinary Presentations

Check out these tips on common ED GU presentations Acute kidney failure and its associated conditions are frequently treated in the emergency department, so it’s highly likely you’ll need to master how to assign an ICD-10 code for this condition.  Key: ICD-10 instructs coding professionals to code any associated underlying conditions which will require attention to documentation of these elements by emergency physicians says Caral Edelberg, CPC, CPMA, CAC, CCS-P, CHC, Chairman of Edelberg & Associates.  Although occasionally an ED presentation will be kidney failure resulting from trauma, for example T79.5 (Traumatic anuria), most...

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